The bardo between empty and full
What do we do in the space between one thing and the next, between meals, between gaps in the diary, gaps in the day?
Now the days are getting longer, the daylight outstretched as we head into Spring, the space between sunrise and sunset – consumption and abstinence, in the case of folks observing Ramadan – there is more space, more time available, technically speaking, according to the colonizer’s clock, as one of my Dharma teachers calls it (and in doing so, cleverly halts time, giving cause to ponder our servitude to the call and the compulsion to be doing something else, somewhere else, any minute now).
And that’s the clue, the key, the portal through – that is if, in the space between, we stop to notice; what’s really happening here, can it, can I, be/do otherwise? Is this the most skillful way, or is there another way?
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