Meditation, the best retirement plan

I have promised not to blog or get involved in any creative stuff before meditating, after all, I can't recommend meditation to anyone if I don't really test it and try it myself.  So, reporting from the coalface of meditation and life, these are the thoughts which have been in my mind over this weekend.. I have realised that the passing show is so quick that even your pleasures pains are quickly over, your family grows up without your permission and even if you are very lucky and they still visit you, they have moved on.  Each springy step across the grass is measured, from the first toddling one to the last few rather painful ones and it would be foolish not to take this on board.  After all we take a lot of trouble with finding the best pension option and we go to the doctor and hope to keep healthy, these are two sensible things to do.  It seems a good idea to consider keeping our actual Self safe too and meditation definately helps to focus the eye, or the I on something steadier than all that is moving and changing.  Plus, you build up a steadiness inside which is useful in the everyday movements of life and I hope might be useful to others round you.  Read more about the picture below tomorrow!

We waved off our friends from the US this morning, goodbyes and hugs and smiles and a bit of sadness, after all, we don't know when or if we will see them again.  To have meditated on the still in the moving, helps.  And it concentrates the mind on the unimportance of trivial things and the huge importance of human relationships.