Icy Water and the unwanted

A Cedary Fragrance by Jane Hirschfield (from Given Sugar, Given Salt, 2001)

Even now, decades after, I wash my face with cold water –

Not for discipline, nor memory, nor the icy, awakening slap,

but to practice choosing to make the unwanted wanted.

Is there something coming up in your week that you imagine you don’t want? How could you want it? How could you move towards what you don’t want? Is there some realignment of that possible? Some non-thinking embraced? Then you could be one with it. The attention and the field are one and they’re not one, and to know this makes all the difference.