Eckhart Tolle's Experiment, also the Garden

[smokingboot]

This is the one where you ask yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be?"

I tried it yesterday and watched, as the experiment recommends. It worked the first time. There was silence as I waited and then, most peculiar notes of music began to rise, long and slow. But of course, the moment I observed them marked the end of the quiet mind!

Today I tried again, and this time, almost instantly I could taste something in my mouth as images began to move in my head, but I can't recall exactly what the taste or the images were, only my mind instantly announcing that thoughts have tastes. Very odd.

Anyway, out of the head and into the real. Letting the grass grow until these are all spent; the self heal has been slow to emerge this year, but the roses are utterly magnificent. I don't get it; they've all got black spot but their blooms are profuse with bewitching scent.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

❤️❤️❤️

[smokingboot]

And to you, always XXX

[flemmings]

Are the purple plants self heal? What a lovely name in any case.

[smokingboot]

Yes, they're the little dark purple ones in the corner of the photo. It has a long standing country medicine reputation of being good for a cure-all, though I don't think it's ever been proven.

[simonbrind]

My roses have the same affliction, and the same blooms!

[smokingboot]

So strange isn't it? I think the affliction makes the plant try harder!