Spiritual meanderings
Ah, fall. My favorite time of year. There's something so reflective about it without the stark introspection of winter.
Got an email from the meditation group I visited a few weeks back. I won't be able to make their next meditation night either. Weeknights just really don't work well at all. Sadly, there's nothing close on the weekends.
But! Next Sunday there's Puanepsia at the Hellenic Temple of Apollon, Zeus, and Pan, and I have hopes of making that. I haven't been since the one time a couple of years back, though that ritual was lovely.
And then the following Sunday, they're actually having the ceremony to celebrate Kuan Yin's Ordinance at Chuang Yen Monastery instead of their place in Manhattan, as they usually do, so I absolutely plan to attend that. It's surprisingly not Her largest festival. (She has three: birthday, enlightenment, and ordinance.) I've given up trying to find a link that would explain it. It's the celebration of Her choice to stay and help other sentient beings escape suffering before attaining Nirvana herself, in an overly-compressed nutshell.
That's an awful lot of driving and an awful lot of gas in an awfully short time, but I think going to both of these will be a help. There's only so much I can manage solitary, and I'm feeling the need for some spiritual sustenance. Particularly when I find myself staring at chains of metabolic reactions with amazing disappearing-and-reappearing-several-compounds-later hydrogens and wondering exactly why I'm doing all this. Or when I'm in the ER with a client, a student nurse comes around, we chat, and I find myself thinking that I'm really not looking forward to being in her shoes. (Which is a given when it comes to the ER, so not my thing, but it felt a bit more generalized than that.) I'm not finding my center to really be able to find the answer to the "why" questions, and I need to.
*picks up wand*
*blows off dust*
There's a post wanting to be written about that, too, one of these days. Probably not today. I should really get back to the amazing disappearing-and-reappearing-several-compounds-later hydrogens. And people think religion isn't rational? lol
Got an email from the meditation group I visited a few weeks back. I won't be able to make their next meditation night either. Weeknights just really don't work well at all. Sadly, there's nothing close on the weekends.
But! Next Sunday there's Puanepsia at the Hellenic Temple of Apollon, Zeus, and Pan, and I have hopes of making that. I haven't been since the one time a couple of years back, though that ritual was lovely.
And then the following Sunday, they're actually having the ceremony to celebrate Kuan Yin's Ordinance at Chuang Yen Monastery instead of their place in Manhattan, as they usually do, so I absolutely plan to attend that. It's surprisingly not Her largest festival. (She has three: birthday, enlightenment, and ordinance.) I've given up trying to find a link that would explain it. It's the celebration of Her choice to stay and help other sentient beings escape suffering before attaining Nirvana herself, in an overly-compressed nutshell.
That's an awful lot of driving and an awful lot of gas in an awfully short time, but I think going to both of these will be a help. There's only so much I can manage solitary, and I'm feeling the need for some spiritual sustenance. Particularly when I find myself staring at chains of metabolic reactions with amazing disappearing-and-reappearing-several-compounds-later hydrogens and wondering exactly why I'm doing all this. Or when I'm in the ER with a client, a student nurse comes around, we chat, and I find myself thinking that I'm really not looking forward to being in her shoes. (Which is a given when it comes to the ER, so not my thing, but it felt a bit more generalized than that.) I'm not finding my center to really be able to find the answer to the "why" questions, and I need to.
*picks up wand*
*blows off dust*
There's a post wanting to be written about that, too, one of these days. Probably not today. I should really get back to the amazing disappearing-and-reappearing-several-compounds-later hydrogens. And people think religion isn't rational? lol