The middle path

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 Was out walking with a friend last week who is an auruvedic doctor and we were talking about cold water. 

He was saying that one of the reasons many people are liking it is because we are over heating.  Something to do with the fire elements he was saying. 


I always think society lives and promotes way too much yang. 

For me everything is yin and yang and we are all at different levels of this spectrum. 

Yin is cold - yang is fire and it's up to us to find the middle path. 


This is pic a from about 5 years ago when I was only really starting to get deeper into my spiritual practices. I still had much yang elements in me and I used to love the cold water. It was no bother for me to get into ice water. It had a very calming effect on me.


Fast forward 5 years later and I know I'm not as much in the yang elements anymore. I'm a bit more chilled with myself than I was back then with all my planting and chanting and following the Buddha path. 


Last week I went for a cold water dip and to be honest I didn't like it, couldn't wait to get out to get in the sauna and chill. 

It just didn't have the same effect on me as before,  I didn't feel I needed it. 


Is it because I've less yang in my body than 5 years ago and I no longer need as much cooling of the soul. 


Who knows! 


Even our thoughts and emotions cause us to overheat, like a computer with too many programmes open it starts to burn up. We are the same. 


One day it would be great though not having to practice any sort of antidote and get to the ignition switch of the soul, to become that humble observer of this passing illusion of life. 

Would be good wouldn't it? 

Not to be wound up, tricked or conned by all this BS flying around. 


The middle path the Buddha says. 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter


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