"The Moon"

I went to a weekend meditation retreat this weekend with Karen Maezen Miller!  I feel as though my cup has been refilled.  I've refueled.  I feel wonderful.  This passage has stuck with me so I felt I should share it here.

Transcribed talk by Dogen Zengi : : The Moon

"Whether we see a crescent moon or a half moon, in any of the phases of the moon before it is full, is anything truly lacking?" Maezumi said in the talk.  "Perhaps you are more logical than me," he laughed, "and you don't wait for the day your life will be full!"

Then Karen Maezen Miller shared a story of the girl and the moon in her new book "Paradise in Plain Sight".

reflecting light.  Only our perspective changes.  We rob ourselves when we mistake the unreal for the real.  

Your heart is always whole, just as the moon is always full.  Your life is always complete.  You just don't see it that way.

There is a pattern to it all.  A precise and invisible orbit that brings the full moon around again without fail.