Aetherous Posted December 7, 2017 Feel free to use this thread to 'count your blessings', or name the things that you're grateful for in your life. Maybe it would be fun to limit it to one thing per day/per post...that way we can spend every day in gratitude. That is, unless you don't like limitations. ... I'm grateful for: A warm bed. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted December 7, 2017 (edited) …and a ‘roof over my head’ (once, I spent few days stranded in the wilderness, wih no shelter….during a cyclonic flood….and with food poisoning ). …… ahhhhhhhhh! Edited December 7, 2017 by Nungali 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted December 7, 2017 I'm grateful for my teacher. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C T Posted December 7, 2017 Im grateful for the emptiness of space... it allows rainbows to play hide-and-seek 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fa Xin Posted December 8, 2017 After having no heat in my apartment the last few days - going to have to say ... heated homes ... 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted December 8, 2017 Today and every day, I am grateful for coffee. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rishi Das Posted December 8, 2017 I am grateful for time spent in the back-country... 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted December 9, 2017 I feel deeply grateful for my practice. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Geof Nanto Posted December 10, 2017 Consciousness! It’s a great gift and also a burden. I’m learning through various teachings 一 human and the natural world; from the visible and invisible realms 一 how it can most comfortably and productively be cultivated so it grows in harmony with the flow of Dao. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ad_B Posted December 10, 2017 I count my blessings for: ~ My family who are very good sorts. ~ My health which is wobbly but robust. ~ My solitude which used to hurt and irk a bit but knowing that fellow travellers exist it was easier to enjoy. ~ My location in rural central England. ~ My job in a lovely Cotswoldy environment. ~ Clean air. ~ Sid R for being a taichi teacher who held lessons locally. ~ Mother nature. ~ My spirit friends (this is supposition on my part). ~ My real-life friendlies and everyday chat-folk. ~ My enemies. ~ Hardships, without which I'd not appreciate the 'easyships' so much. ~ Reality, which is worth keeping in touch with. ~ Dreams. ~ Food, shelter and warmth. ~ The true teachers who have commited their works to word and video. ~ The fake and mistaken teachers who have done the same and allow us to wiegh-up the difference. ~ Life. ~ The 10,000 things of which I can do without and some of which I enjoy. ~ Love and joy which surprised me upon realising that its nobody elses job but mine. ~ The fragility of it all which allows for a truly grateful, daily counting of the blessings and a heartfelt prayer of thanks to heaven. 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted December 11, 2017 _/\_ I'm grateful for not being the jealous type. Rural central England and clean air! This sounds positively cruel amidst our SoCal wildfires, evacuation alerts on the cell phone in the middle of the night, the night spent climbing up the walls and cursing the dentist who "fixed" something that didn't hurt just so that it turned on the kind of pain that shrugs off a triple dose of painkillers thrown at it by someone who doesn't take any for, e.g., a broken toe, packing a bug-out bag and commiserating with an evacuated neighbor who's sitting in the car at 4 a.m. in the company of four cats, looking for a shelter that will admit them. I'm grateful that the next morning the tooth is better, my own paranoid cat is oblivious to the scare of his life he has just narrowly avoided and purrs peacefully, the fire that's the closest to us is 20% contained, up from 0% a few hours before, the Santa Ana wind has subsided and I'm not planning anything at all other than a day of rewards for all my suffering, wedge out, pig out, space out, and be grateful, upon visiting this TDB thread, that I'm not a jealous type. Meow... 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted December 11, 2017 Very grateful for the good health of my children. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miroku Posted December 11, 2017 I am most grateful for my teachers and their gift of dharma teachings they gave me and continue to give. Then also for my loving boyfriend that makes samsara feel more pleasant and for good food and tea that sometimes appear on my table. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rishi Das Posted December 11, 2017 As I walked out back to the practice shed this morning - The sting of frost covered grass on the soles of my bare feet The cold morning air that swept through and chilled my body The stars and the moon that bathed me from above The silence of a sleeping world This morning, I feel grateful to experience the depth and richness of even the most 'mundane' of moments. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aetherous Posted December 12, 2017 Making it back home safely Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rishi Das Posted December 12, 2017 I often take for granted things that not everyone is afforded the luxury of having. In that vein, I'm feeling grateful to have a roof over my head and food in the fridge. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cold Posted December 12, 2017 On 12/7/2017 at 2:29 PM, Nungali said: …and a ‘roof over my head’ (once, I spent few days stranded in the wilderness, wih no shelter….during a cyclonic flood….and with food poisoning ). …… ahhhhhhhhh! I'm grateful a lot of things and mainly remind my self but for the grace of God... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted December 12, 2017 (edited) Life ...every day. Edited December 12, 2017 by Nungali 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zanshin Posted December 13, 2017 For a lazy evening to bake, watch the snow fly, and watch White Christmas. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aetherous Posted December 13, 2017 The instruction I've had so far, which has led me down better paths. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nungali Posted December 13, 2017 18 hours ago, zanshin said: For a lazy evening to bake, watch the snow fly, and watch White Christmas. Here 'white Christmas' is a fruity slice with white choc . Its hot, a heatwave approaches and the cicadas are deafening ! Actually, so many cicadas that someone commented 'is it raining ' ? Well, before I have been out in such conditions and felt 'sprinkles' but never before have I looked out (off the verandah ) and actually seen a light shower falling .... like a summer sun shower. .... everywhere ! So ... in the spirit of this thread .... I am grateful for cicada piss . I suppose 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doc benway Posted December 18, 2017 (edited) Feeling grateful for the symbiosis between humans and canines. Edited December 18, 2017 by steve 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aetherous Posted December 19, 2017 https://brooklynhomemaker.com/2013/12/18/pfeffernusse/ The ability to make these cookies for the holidays. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zanshin Posted December 19, 2017 5 hours ago, Aetherous said: https://brooklynhomemaker.com/2013/12/18/pfeffernusse/ The ability to make these cookies for the holidays. They do sound good; grateful for an excuse to get some brandy. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted December 19, 2017 For a brief respite from winter cold. Enjoying a few days in the 40's. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
