The Mindful Farmer Daily Diary Day 90

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on day 90 if another world experience. On this cold June morning I would like to discuss with you the subject of “being/living in the now”. It is something I try very hard to do each minute of each hour of each day but it can be difficult. We all have roving, fast travelling minds which causes our thoughts to become compulsive and not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction and many of us don’t realise it because almost all of us are suffering from it and so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents us from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from the “being” and the “now” but more serious than that, it also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering on the inside and a picture of fake glass on the outside. We all like to categorize and compare what I suggest we must do is to find ourselves resting in the oceanic depth of the here and now for it is here we find our “true self”. So for today, take a little time out and shut out the world as only you and now matter, rest mindfully for a while and in the breath. Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear that smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick