Spiritual Practice

June 5

Is your spiritual practice open for business? Taking on new clients, pulling ads from the newspaper, spinning up shop, practicing the way a dentist does, with long wait times and appointment follow ups?

Or is your spiritual practice that of a disciplined cellist, running notes and scales and making funny-but-not-really-funny faces at your fingers every time they make a mistake?

Is your spiritual practice just waiting for the real thing? Running through the wedding rehearsal one last time to please the planner, half assing it because you know no amount of effort is actually going to help the real thing?

Or is it timed down to the minute, the sets and reps of the professional athlete, timed out to maximum efficiency?

Is it none of those things or all of the above or something else entirely, comfortable simply existing, the kind of practice of the old musician who, despite having a clear calendar, still picks up the instrument just to find some time, or just so they can say they still play, still feel the notes, the old ways, coursing through the fingers into the world not from the mind, but from somewhere else, somewhere unknown, the place where music stays when no one is listening?

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