Comments on: Order, Order in the Studio! http://weavingthedream.com/blog/2007/order-order-in-the-studio/ Weaving Experiences of Transformation Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:40:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Marion http://weavingthedream.com/blog/2007/order-order-in-the-studio/#comment-8 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 02:44:59 +0000 http://weavingthedream.com/blog/2007/order-order-in-the-studio/#comment-8 Order! Order! Come to Order! Was it you I was talking to about this very subject last week? Perhaps not, it was in context to house cleaning, and how I need to have my environment in order before I can focus on a project. Be it creative or studying while I was in school. My meditation teacher would say that it is important to have your environment in order, because the outer is a reflection of the inner. He said it was important to have lose ends tided up so to speak, before meditation. Whether that be taking care of paying off debts before going into retreat, or tidying one's meditation cabin first thing upon arising in the morning. This would allow the mind to be at peace, and not have those things nagging in the background, and then one could focus on the meditation at hand allowing one to enter the void unencumbered. This is the state from which all things arise. On the more mundane level, if things have a place, and they are in their place, you can always find them. I am finding this is especially important as I age. It makes finding things far easier, when you know where to look. Now getting things to where they belong is another story. But if things don't have a place where they belong, you have no hope of finding them. That is the current problem with the three stacks of papers I have covering my project desk. I have no system for sorting all that information. So what good is it. I kept it in the first place, because I thought it would be useful, but have no way of finding it in the future, because it is in a stack, and therefore, I have probably forgotten I have it. Unless I develop a good filing system, I might as well get rid of it. But I can't, so it sits there, and grows. And the bigger it grows, the more I procrastinate putting it in order! One of these days, I will get to those stacks, and then I will feel liberated. It is good to know that others have similar sorting and filing problems. Some have cones of yarn, others, mountains of paper! We're not so different. Just a bit of musing on the subject of Order. It happens to be a deep subject, once you dive into it. Who would have guessed. Order! Order! Come to Order!
Was it you I was talking to about this very subject last week? Perhaps not, it was in context to house cleaning, and how I need to have my environment in order before I can focus on a project. Be it creative or studying while I was in school. My meditation teacher would say that it is important to have your environment in order, because the outer is a reflection of the inner. He said it was important to have lose ends tided up so to speak, before meditation. Whether that be taking care of paying off debts before going into retreat, or tidying one’s meditation cabin first thing upon arising in the morning. This would allow the mind to be at peace, and not have those things nagging in the background, and then one could focus on the meditation at hand allowing one to enter the void unencumbered. This is the state from which all things arise.

On the more mundane level, if things have a place, and they are in their place, you can always find them. I am finding this is especially important as I age. It makes finding things far easier, when you know where to look. Now getting things to where they belong is another story. But if things don’t have a place where they belong, you have no hope of finding them. That is the current problem with the three stacks of papers I have covering my project desk. I have no system for sorting all that information. So what good is it. I kept it in the first place, because I thought it would be useful, but have no way of finding it in the future, because it is in a stack, and therefore, I have probably forgotten I have it. Unless I develop a good filing system, I might as well get rid of it. But I can’t, so it sits there, and grows. And the bigger it grows, the more I procrastinate putting it in order! One of these days, I will get to those stacks, and then I will feel liberated. It is good to know that others have similar sorting and filing problems. Some have cones of yarn, others, mountains of paper! We’re not so different.

Just a bit of musing on the subject of Order. It happens to be a deep subject, once you dive into it. Who would have guessed.

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