The Gathering Room: The Joy of Drudgery
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 мар 2024
- “How do we adjust to the drudgery?”
Martha was asked this question by Ro when they returned home from a wonderful stay at the Imiloa Institute in the Costa Rican jungle.
A lot of upkeep is required to sustain ordinary living, and much of daily life gets consumed by repetitive tasks. In this episode of The Gathering Room, Martha talks about a shift we can make to transform drudgery into beauty.
In traditions where they have the concept of awakening or enlightenment, Martha says, the emphasis is not on what you do, but how you do it. It's the quality of presence in your body, mind, heart, and spirit while you carry out each task.
As the Zen saying goes, “Before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.”
When you are fully present and engaging with all of your senses, any experience can become sublime, even mundane tasks like washing the dishes. You can look at even the simplest object and say, “You are so beautiful.”
To get more insights about transforming drudgery into a spiritual practice, tune in for the full episode, which also includes Martha’s guided Silence, Stillness, and Space meditation. And if a retreat with Martha sounds like just the thing to help you return to your life with fresh eyes, read about her Pure.Wild.Self Retreat in Costa Rica at the link below!
Show Notes: marthabeck.com/gathering-pod/...
Phenomenal!! Thank you, Thank you, Dr. Beck!! Our World is so Deeply Blessed to Have Access to all You Generously Share with Your Genius, Astute Perspectives, Refreshing Humility, and Your Fabulous Humor! Vielen Dank aus Deutschland!
YAY! Comments! - I absolutely LOVE this. Whenever I've been really lost in my life, the one thing that has ALWAYS worked to help me restore my balance and find my way, NATURE.
I often wait until I'm so lost I'm desperate and so I return to nature, just sitting. I force myself to sit until I feel better. Sometimes this is INCREDIBLY difficult because I'm so caught up in life's issues. Often when I do this, my immediate response is "OH I can't do this. I need to do X, Y and Z so that I can get onto A, B and C" but I refuse to move. Absolutely refuse and I start asking nature to help me.....then I let go of all those other thoughts of what I need to do and simply tell myself that sitting here is the absolute most important thing I can do in my life. LITERALLY nothing else matters. And I repeat that until I feel better and thankfully it's never let me down.
In fact, I've had some really odd adventures where I felt like I was actually communicating with the trees. I don't share that often because people look at me like I've got 3 heads when I tell them that. BUT I can give you story after story of how it happens and what I've experienced and they're pretty awesome.
Chop wood, Carry Water is also a very cool book of the same name. I read it many years ago and found it to be enormously helpful.
Saying "You are so beautiful" to people and things is incredibly powerful. It moves us into acceptance. Acceptance of whatever we're beholding at that moment in time regardless of anything else. It's unfortunate that in this beautiful idea, that you chose to single out someone wearing a MAGA hat, as if they're a shared and known enemy. As much as I love Marty's ideas, this was really clumsy. You may dislike a person's political beliefs and totally disagree with their ideology but you make a HUGE mistake when you simply react to a label....which is exactly what MAGA is. Please don't do that Marty - you isolate a segment of your fanbase that deeply cares for you, enjoys what you share, and wants only the best for you but may have different ideas than you. Their ideas are no less valid than yours and it's not necessary to single them out like you did.
Finally - here on RUclips the audio is hard to hear. I would ask that you turn up the gain on the recording so that we can hear it better. This is most evident during the meditation when Marty gets really quiet. My computer volume is on the highest it will go. I've worked with computers for a very long time and I know my laptop volume is lower than many but I also know this is not an uncommon issue for people. We can always turn down our volume if you're too loud but we can only turn it up so much. SO sending out vids with higher volume would be appreciated. And I know, I know.....there will literally be hundreds of people that think "Hmm I can hear her just fine." Right?! I could too when I used my macintosh. However it died and I switched to an ASUS and for some reason, it's max volume is less than the Apple. I've contacted them directly and searched the internet and this is not uncommon for ASUS computers to have this issue as well as other brands. The MFG denies these claims but it's happening and it's real. SO please, turn up the gain by a lot. Thanks!
Love your vids and your work!! Thank you for all you do!!
Agree alienating potential fan base. We need a balance of left right. However, our choices have been limited to the absurd last few years - that’s part of the problem. The right shares many values with liberals. Tragically dem party has been taken over by leftist. Must be stopped at any cost. We are losing Western civilization which has been a net gain for humanity. Read Steven Pinker.
I really Like your RUclips videos. You are inspiring the whole world to practice. That is very convenient.
This is my first LIVE gathering room ❤
Thank you❤
Ro wants to #vanlife to Costa Rica.
Now I want tomatoes 🍅 ❤