Poignantly placed, on curved walls all across the London tube, is this message by Gandhi:
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
As the onlooker rushes onto the next, the next and then the next...
Recently I met a Londoner who had moved to the Black Country (for love). She told me she was getting used to people saying "hello" to her in the street.
Speed is an illusive and deceptive phenomena, it seems that the quicker we can produce, communicate, create, react, respond, the better - first passed the post wins?
"I don't have the time, I am too busy". The quicker the technology we have at our fingertips can create something, the busier we feel. Busy is a state of mind and so is time - (another post) -
Our ability to communicate has dramatically sped up - the thought of sending or receiving a hand written letter is distant - a disappearing art, yet to scribe a letter and to send requires a greater thought and intention than to quickly send an e-mail. Has e-mail and the internet improved the quality of our life? Probably not. Its a medium we can use and master rather than it mastering us. It is very easy to hide lazily behind an e-mail - than it is to hide behind a paper and pen.
My late Uncle was the last of my circle who sent letters - it was a pleasure to have known him and to receive them.
Meditation tinkers with the internal workings of our reality and aides us into realizing that time and speed is just a concept - we can create time for something if we develop the aspiration and wish to engage in that activity....
Try meditating, try writing a letter - if you have the time.....
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