Hello, again!

Well, hello again all!!

It has been a busy time for me of late as I've moved house and been offline for 6/7 weeks.

For all of those who've moved house before, you know what it's like? You box everything up, room by room, you label the boxes and then you pack 'em on the van and move. At the new house everything gets unloaded and boxes get put into the correct rooms (ha, ha) and you spend the next 2 weeks or more unpacking and wondering where the hell your anglepoise lamp from the study has disappeared to!

However, during the tiring process of unpacking, I was struck by the thought of how like the meditation process unpacking boxes can be (at least for me, anyway). You start at the beginning with lots of boxes; you think you know what's in them, but until you actually open the box, you can't be absolutely sure (a box of kitchen stuff turns out to be ornaments from your living room, for example).

As the process of discovery goes on you find more and more things that you are familiar with, but which have to be placed in different parts of the house from before or which you have to decide to get rid of altogether; so in the meditative process, we unpack our spiritual boxes and discover things weren't perhaps as we thought they were and that we have moved some spiritual baggage with us that in fact needs to be thrown in the bin.

So perhaps we can view our meditation journeys as a house move and start unpacking our boxes, rearranging our furniture and discarding all those old bits of tat that we've hung on to for no good reason at all.

Good luck with your house move!