Emotional Housecleaning

Leave your front door

and your back door open.

Allow your thoughts

 to come and go.

Just don't serve them tea....

                             Shunryu Suzuki

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You would be amazed

at how many high school boys you

could stuff into a VW Beetle (back in the 1960’s)

you might also be amazed

at how many random thoughts

you can stuff into a human brain!

all those worries!

about things done and not done

all those angry thoughts,

and fearful thoughts

all those “lists”

all those regrets

it’s a wonder we can pick our heads up off our pillows

our heads are so full

when it comes to thoughts

we are nothing less than horders

it is not that thoughts are bad

but when we can with us so much junk from the past

and carry so much stuff about the future?

well lets just say I (personally) often must find my way

along narrow paths among the piled up garbage

I invited my thoughts to tea

they stayed for dinner

an are now sleeping on my couch!

how about you?

A little unnecessary company?

Time to let go of a lot of old garbage

Half eaten regrets

And piled up guilt

time to get rid of all those planning calendars

over which we worry and fuss

time to be in this day

in this moment

with the person right in front of us!

with room in our emotional and mental house

to dance to the music (of Sacred)

I hear some where it is now officially spring!

Spring cleaning anyone!?