Zen lesson: "water the flowers, not the weeds"

If you’re out watering your flower garden by hand, you naturally concentrate the flow of water to benefit your beautiful flowers. If there’s an area of weeds, you don’t waste water there. As best you can, you avoid watering the weeds. It’s the same with your consciousness. You can learn to selectively water the positive seeds and flowers in you by attending to them. There are enough weeds. You don’t have to encourage them.

- Thomas Bien, “Water the Flowers, Not the Weeds” (Via Tricycle.com)


Letting go of the weeds - comparisons, "should's", competition, resentment, projections, and other painful habits - has made a big difference in my life.