Comments on: can you blow it all away? my day with the monks http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:13:16 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paula http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-783 Paula Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:38:02 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-783 I like the jewels metaphor too. It's sometimes what we're holding onto the hardest or what we think is most valuable that needs to go. I like the jewels metaphor too. It's sometimes what we're holding onto the hardest or what we think is most valuable that needs to go.

]]> By: Danielle LaPorte http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-782 Danielle LaPorte Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:51:42 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-782 what a great story! thank you. I have a similar twist...some of the best writing advice I ever got was, "get rid of the jewels", meaning, sometimes it's your best sentence or paragraph that needs to go to make it all work. just get rid of it...throw it in the stove. what a great story! thank you. I have a similar twist...some of the best writing advice I ever got was, "get rid of the jewels", meaning, sometimes it's your best sentence or paragraph that needs to go to make it all work. just get rid of it...throw it in the stove.

]]> By: Vi | Maximizing Utility http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-781 Vi | Maximizing Utility Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:21:03 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-781 Thank you for sharing this ritual. For me, it's a new idea and very insightful. It seems like a great exercise for your mind and soul. Thank you for sharing this ritual. For me, it's a new idea and very insightful. It seems like a great exercise for your mind and soul.

]]> By: jo martin http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-780 jo martin Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:57:49 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-780 It's always the journey, not the arriving; it's not the goal, it's the process -- that's what the sand mandalas telll me. I do that in a way with things -- I'll acquire something I really want at that moment, enjoy it for a while, then give it awa - throw it in the stove. Good for you changing I'm Loving . . . . it's exactly your example to us all . . . . It's always the journey, not the arriving; it's not the goal, it's the process -- that's what the sand mandalas telll me. I do that in a way with things -- I'll acquire something I really want at that moment, enjoy it for a while, then give it awa - throw it in the stove.

Good for you changing I'm Loving . . . . it's exactly your example to us all . . . .

]]> By: pearl mattenson http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-778 pearl mattenson Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:14:28 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-778 Thanks for letting us know about the 'I'm loving' segment. If something isn't feeling right, you change it, you find what is, you keep looking. I so appreciate the example you set! Thanks for letting us know about the 'I'm loving' segment. If something isn't feeling right, you change it, you find what is, you keep looking. I so appreciate the example you set!

]]> By: Li http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-776 Li Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:27:50 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-776 I've already posted my Monday Loves list on my blog today. I get you saying about it being too restrictive, but for me it's been a wonderful way to start my week in the right frame of mind, so I think I'll continue with it. Thank you for the inspiration :) Li x I've already posted my Monday Loves list on my blog today. I get you saying about it being too restrictive, but for me it's been a wonderful way to start my week in the right frame of mind, so I think I'll continue with it. Thank you for the inspiration :)

Li x

]]> By: Paula http://whitehottruth.com/inspiration-spirituality-articles/can-you-blow-it-all-away-my-day-with-the-monks/#comment-775 Paula Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:40:36 +0000 http://whitehottruth.com/?p=4088#comment-775 When he was learning the carpenter trade from his uncle, my father had a ritual he later called "throw it in the stove". His uncle gave him projects to do or he thought of something himself that he could make out of wood: a small chair, a bowl, an intricately carved picture frame. When he was finished, his uncle would show him how to improve it and after he did that work too, his uncle would say, "Now throw it in the stove!" They lived in a house without central heating. Dad later said that this was the only way to become a good carpenter. When I brought my art projects home from school as a kid, my Dad would always tell me how I could improve them and would then say, "Now throw it in the stove!" We didn't have a wood stove and my mother would always rescue the bedraggled paper Santa Claus or whatever it was. I think I would have been devastated then, but now I can really appreciate how this exercise teaches us how to revere the process without attachment to the product. I could use more of that these days. When he was learning the carpenter trade from his uncle, my father had a ritual he later called "throw it in the stove". His uncle gave him projects to do or he thought of something himself that he could make out of wood: a small chair, a bowl, an intricately carved picture frame. When he was finished, his uncle would show him how to improve it and after he did that work too, his uncle would say, "Now throw it in the stove!" They lived in a house without central heating. Dad later said that this was the only way to become a good carpenter. When I brought my art projects home from school as a kid, my Dad would always tell me how I could improve them and would then say, "Now throw it in the stove!" We didn't have a wood stove and my mother would always rescue the bedraggled paper Santa Claus or whatever it was. I think I would have been devastated then, but now I can really appreciate how this exercise teaches us how to revere the process without attachment to the product. I could use more of that these days.

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