During the laundry, the ecstacy
Moments of insight can arise at anytime. Often in the middle of the most mundane activity, suddenly everything has changed.
Great thinkers tell the same story. It’s not until they give up the thinking and get in the bath that the eureka moment comes!
If we’re waiting in meditation for the big breakthrough, or expecting it while grappling with the concept of emptiness, it can be disconcerting when it seems to come out of nowhere.
But there’s a connection. ‘Build it and they will come.’ There’s activity and receptivity.
This song, for me, is about those moments when the insight comes from nowhere.
Suddenly Everything has Changed
by The Flaming Lips
Putting all the vegetables away
That you bought at the grocery store today
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Driving home the sky accelerates
And the clouds all form a geometric shape
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Putting all the clothes you washed away
As you're folding up the shirts you hesitate
Then it goes fast
Think of the past
