This Is This

It has been cold the last few days. I’ve been cold too, but mostly it has been cold.

It’s funny how people say “I am cold”, thinking the conditions are something particular to themselves. Next time you are feeling cold, try thinking “it is cold and I can feel it”. It puts you right there in the experience of your environment.

The cold exists and you are mindful of it. What’s even nicer is that it’s the same cold everyone else can feel. These are the same conditions in the same air that your parents and their parents and the parents before them felt and you are a part of that same experience long after they have died. Doesn’t that warm you up a bit?

I might be experiencing how cold it is at this very moment, if I happen to be outside while you read this.

So are you cold, or is there more to it than that?

There’s no clear distinction between youself and the weather, your condition and the conditions, if you take a second to think about it.

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