Chasing the Pleasant

My plants are like pets this week. Outdoors. Indoors. Outdoors. Indoors. Now that the freezing weather has ended, they can go outdoors again and stay there.

People around here are returning from a week of spring vacation, but for my plants, summer vacation is beginning.

Our own constant motion is an attempt to find a pleasant place to abide. But pleasantness is fleeting. Out bodies keep chasing warmth--sometimes flying thousands of miles to find it. Or we chase coolness. We chase comfort. When we sit still, the body in meditation, our mind continues to chase pleasantness by daydreaming or dozing.

Come home to your body. Rest right here in its changing sensations.
Come home to the mind and its kaleidoscope of changing thoughts.

Allow pleasantness to come and go, just like it always does.