Rain

[Guest]

It's raining this morning, and at one point I noticed my thinking "Ugh, I hate having to go to work in the rain.". Once I noticed this, I took a deep breath and decided to hold equanimity about it, realizing the above mentioned thought process was just that, only thought. I then heard the rain and it was just rain.

Gassho

John

Sattoday

[Jundo]

It's raining this morning, and at one point I noticed my thinking "Ugh, I hate having to go to work in the rain.". Once I noticed this, I took a deep breath and decided to hold equanimity about it, realizing the above mentioned thought process was just that, only thought. I then heard the rain and it was just rain.

Gassho

John

Sattoday

Rain is just rain. It is lousy if you need to get to work or have a picnic, but very good for the farmers (if not too much) and for the earth.

Did you know that much of the water on earth is not only older than the planet, it is older than the sun! It is TRUE!

Around 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is comprised of water, and our big, blue, planet is filled with rivers, streams, and oceans that defy everything scientists have come to learn about the formation of Earth. ... Not all water in the solar system today could have formed in our solar system ... The dense interstellar clouds of gas and dust where stars form contain abundant water, in the form of ice. When a star first lights up, it heats up the cloud around it and floods it with radiation, vaporizing the ice and breaking up some of the water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. ... Comets and asteroids in particular, being primitive objects, provide a natural “time capsule” of the conditions during the early days of our solar system. Their ices can tell scientists about the ice that encircled the Sun after its birth, the origin of which was an unanswered question until now.

In its youth, the Sun was surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, the so-called solar nebula, from which the planets were born. But it was unclear to researchers whether the ice in this disk originated from the Sun’s own parental interstellar molecular cloud, from which it was created, or whether this interstellar water had been destroyed and was re-formed by the chemical reactions taking place in the solar nebula.
https://astronomy.com/news/2014/09/e...r-than-the-sun and https://www.earth.com/news/earths-water-older-sun/

The results suggest that up to 30 to 50 percent of Earth's ocean water and perhaps 60 to 100 percent of the water on comets originally formed in interstellar space, before the sun was born. (These are the high-end estimates generated by the simulations; the low-end estimates suggest that at least 7 percent of ocean water and at least 14 percent of comet water predates the sun.)
https://www.space.com/27256-earth-wa...-than-sun.html

So, rain is just rain, older than the planet, older than the sun.

Nonetheless ... WEAR YOUR BOOTS and CARRY A GOOD UMBRELLA like your mother taught you!

Gassho, J

STLah

[Shokai]

Yep, Older than dirt!!

gassho, Shokai
stlah

[Koushi]

One of my favorite rain/everyday life quotes:

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, “Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.”
—Shunryu Suzuki

Gassho,
Koushi
STLaH

[Naiko]

We should be treating our water better, as our honored elder. (Well, I guess that applies to the whole universe…)
Gassho,
Naiko
st

[Heiso]

No such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing. See also - you're skin is waterproof and your insides are wet.

The zen teachings I learned courtesy of shouty men in the British army.

Gassho,

Heiso

StLah

[Tosei]

No such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing. See also - you're skin is waterproof and your insides are wet.

The zen teachings I learned courtesy of shouty men in the British army.

I learned the same from shouty men in the US marine corps, with the addition of "just suck it up, sunshine".

Gassho,


St

[Tomás ESP]

This reminded me of a quote that goes something like "Hot Buddha, cold Buddha". Glad the rain was there for you.

Gassho, Tomás
Sat

[Heiso]

I learned the same from shouty men in the US marine corps, with the addition of "just suck it up, sunshine".

Gassho,


St

I feel the sudden urge to get in the press up position and hold it for a long time.

Gassho

Heiso

StLah

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[Tosei]

Rain

I feel the sudden urge to get in the press up position and hold it for a long time.

...until someone else gets tired. Like our practice now, impossible to get right, even when done 'perfectly'. And likewise, the other way around

gassho.

st

[Max]

Rain!
Over the past couple of days, here in Geelong (Australia), we recorded 60mm of wonderful, nitrogen saturated rain. At one stage 35mm in just under 30 minutes.
Rare for this part of the world but very welcome. Easy to say when you live on a hill with a home orchard and productive garden; more difficult for those living on the flats and spending the next days sloshing water out of their flooded homes.
This morning during zazen I sent metta to this mob. 'May you be happy, may you be well, may you be whole to the greatest degree possible, may you experience unconditional love.' Tonglen also.
gassho
Max
sat