01/01/2026
This morning, instead of sitting for meditation with my eyes closed, I decided to sit and watch the clouds in the sky. I watched how they slowly moved, changed shape, sometimes becoming big, sometimes splitting from one cloud to several clouds. I watched as each cloud slowly moved by. One thing, though, did not move or change. I saw how the blue sky above remained still. Always there, sometimes in full view, sometimes obstructed, sometimes hidden, but ever present.
As the clouds continued to shift their form, the sky remained effortlessly still. Untouched, unworried, not shifting or changing. I watched in ore as nature continued to transform around me, the sun rose in the distance, yet this perfect blue sky remained still. Just there.
Our human lives are like much like these clouds, moving changing, growing, coming and going.
An interesting contemplation arose. What if we first believed we are just like these clouds, moving, ever changing, coming and going. Then what if one day we saw ourselves being like the sky. Always here, forever present, untouched.
Perhaps we've been identifying our lives up until now with these moving clouds, until we one day wake up to realise we are in fact more like the blue sky above 🤔
Ever present, always peaceful. Always at home. Always here.
Clouds will always move, just like our mind, yet the sky above, and within, did not come and does not go. Is always there, even when it can't be seen for a while.
Be like the sky ✨️ 💙
Contemplations below 👇
