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| Cheerio cousins |
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| Fishfinger dream |
Have you heard of the theory that all this life is a dream? In ancient texts there are stories of how Kings discovered this through the experience of finding themselves in a dream propelling them through whole lives with dramatic twists and turns. They may end up killed/crowned/married and then just as the axe is about to fall or the bride walk up the aisle, they wake up and find that only a few seconds have passed. Well don't you find that Christmas is like this: you get started on December 21st, stocking up for the Christmas seige with the giant pack of Cheerios, party poppers, satsumas, extra potatoes, stocking fillers, turkeys, sausages, breadsauce and fishfingers too. You make up the beds, wrap up the presents, decorate the tree, hang up the mistletoe, polish the floor, the furniture and everything else in sight including Grandpa! Then you open the door and in they come and the fun begins and goes on with paper and string and games and little snoozes for Grandpa and the occasional film on the telly and you try to keep up your meditation practice. But then the dream creeps into your meditation and suddenly in place of the proper focus of your attention being a mantra or a silent presence, you forget you are free of all care and think...fishfingers will do the trick tonight...and your peace dissolves into planning the fishfinger supper.
We are about to say goodbye to the last visitors and take down the holly and the Christmas tree and the dream which was Christmas 2014 will disappear just as the fishfinger dream disappeared. Lucky for this dreamer that Grandpa will still be here to say that the dream was good fun and to help with the clearing up dream which is next.
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| Is that Grandpa in the corner |
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