"' Remember the Sabbath' means 'Remember that everything you have received is a blessing. Remember to delight in your life, in the fruits of your labor. Remember to stop and offer thanks for the wonder of it . . . Sabbath honor the necessary wisdom of dormancy. If certain plant species, for example, do not lie dormant in winter, they will not bear fruit in the spring . . . We, too, must have a period in which we lie fallow, and restore our souls . . . Within this sanctuary, we become available to the insights and blessings of deep mindfulness that arise only in stillness and time. When we act from a place of deep rest, we are more capable of cultivating what the Buddhists would call right understanding, right action, and right effort."
Wayne Muller writes more on the sabbath. To him, the Sabbath does not mean only a the traditional day of rest, but any moment, hour, afternoon, or season of restoration:
"' Remember the Sabbath' means 'Remember that everything you have received is a blessing. Remember to delight in your life, in the fruits of your labor. Remember to stop and offer thanks for the wonder of it . . . Sabbath honor the necessary wisdom of dormancy. If certain plant species, for example, do not lie dormant in winter, they will not bear fruit in the spring . . . We, too, must have a period in which we lie fallow, and restore our souls . . . Within this sanctuary, we become available to the insights and blessings of deep mindfulness that arise only in stillness and time. When we act from a place of deep rest, we are more capable of cultivating what the Buddhists would call right understanding, right action, and right effort."
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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