Mud in Your Eye

I was pulling a large geranium out of a flower bed yesterday and splashed some mud in my eye. Unpleasant! Uncomfortable! I rushed into the house to pop out my contact lens and wash the mud out of my eye.

Why on earth would someone wish mud-in-your-eye on anyone else? It's a drinking toast, but when we stop to think about it, how does muddy vision help anyone?

Or is it that drinking impairs our clear seeing?

People drink for a lot of reasons. "To relax" is the one i hear most often. We meditators can relax simply by closing our eyes for a minute or for 20. That's where we find our relaxation and our clear seeing.