1.17.2010

Your mind on Tide


My mother taught me many things, but she didn't teach me much about homemaking. To learn how to keep house, I had to study under the tutelage of an eighth century Chinese enlightened master.

I'm so pleased to see my new article "Do Dishes, Rake Leaves" in the March issue of Shambhala Sun magazine, and I'm especially pleased to see it under my full name. If you haven't yet read it, put it on your list of things to do this weekend. If heaven forbid you don't subscribe to the magazine, put that on your list, too.

And if you don't have a list, here's a handy one to start with.

6 comments:

leanamay said...

I thought it was an excellent article. Congrats! I absolutely adore the Shambhala Sun. I anxiously await its arrival every month!

cypress sun said...

excellent reminders. i once read a story about a mother putting her love for her son into the laundry she folded for him. your article reminds me of this. thank you for making the "big things" so simple.

shannon said...

This is what I heard: If you can't be present in your own kitchen, where can you be present?

Thanks for the present :-)

Mama Zen said...

I'm still stuck on the notion of your dharma name sounding too asian and too religious . . .

Jaya said...

The list of the tips for a mindful home is simple, yet the actions on them have such a profound effect... Thanks for sharing!

Stacy (Mama-Om) said...

Thank you for your words!

Especially these: "See beyond your house, Joshu answers, beyond the delusion of a separate self trapped by the false perception of what is inside and what is outside."

They struck my heart.