Of honey and cleaning glass

Inspired by Dakini's blog post.

As with many people who were used to flawless vision in their youth, the onset of presbyopia in middle age came as a bit of a shock. With that came the necessity of wearing glasses for reading and working at a computer. And like Dakini's windscreen, the glasses need regular cleaning, usually to rid them of greasy smears.

Can you imagine what my glasses would be like if I never cleaned them? Perhaps I would still be able to see through them but discerning reality would get harder and harder. Perhaps I would start confusing what was real with what was simply stuck on the glass! So to give myself comfortable vision, I need to clean them once a day.

Once a day. Hmm... Play as Being 'imposes' a 1% time tax in the form of 9 seconds in each 15 minute period. But how about over a whole day? It turns out that 10 minutes over a waking day is also 1%. If Play as Being is cleaning my windscreen, perhaps my 10 minute morning altar offering ritual is cleaning my glasses. Both leave me deeply refreshed and energised. Both leave me cleansed. And that's before the possibility of adding extra 'formal' meditation time.

So add them up and it's 2% of my time. Now the big question. What about the other 98%?

Let me tell you a secret. Take a cup of water, add a teaspoon of honey, and stir. Does the water taste sweet? You bet it does! Yet it's 98% water and just 2% honey. In the same way, that 2% of my time spent 'cleaning glass' sweetens the whole of the rest of my day!