{"id":674,"date":"2010-02-02T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/groundhog-day-meditation\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:07:23","slug":"groundhog-day-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/02\/groundhog-day-meditation.html","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:85%\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><br>As long as we\u2019re thinking about Groundhog Day, how about one of the lovely movies about the spiritual path\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_yDWQsrajA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_yDWQsrajA<\/a>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\">Yes, it is silly. And yes people don\u2019t actually literally live lives over and over again in the reanimation sense. But we do play out our patterns over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, there is some hard quest for love that seems to drive us, usually into all the wrong places.<\/p>\n<p>Until and unless we are blessed with a little peek into our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>And so, there is for me something kind of silly wonderful in this little movie.<\/p>\n<p>Even some real hints about real life.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMtWAcVy6-w\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMtWAcVy6-w<\/a><br><span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:85%\"><br><span style=\"font-size:130%\">Finally, just because, here\u2019s a poem on Groundhog Day by the lovely poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuworld.org\/about\/authors\/lynnungar.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lynn Ungar<\/a><br><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;font-family: verdana\"> <\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family:verdana;font-size:130%\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;font-family: verdana\"> <\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:130%\"><br>Celebrate this unlikely  oracle,<br>this ball of fat and fur,<br>whom we so mysteriously endow<br>with  the power to predict spring.<br>Let\u2019s hear it for the improbable heroes  who,<br>frightened at their own shadows,<br>nonetheless unwittingly work  miracles.<br>Why shouldn\u2019t we believe<br>this peculiar rodent holds  power<br>over sun and seasons in his stubby paw?<br>Who says that God is all  grandeur and glory?<\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;font-family: verdana;font-style: italic\"> <\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-style: italic;font-family:verdana;font-size:130%\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;font-family: verdana;font-style: italic\"> <\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:130%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Unnoticed in the earth,  worms<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">are busily, brainlessly, tilling the soil.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Field mice, all  unthinking, have scattered<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">seeds that will take root and grow.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Grape  hyacinths, against all reason,<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">have been holding up green shoots beneath the  snow.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">How do you think spring arrives?<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">There is nothing quieter,  nothing<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">more secret, miraculous, mundane.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Do you want to play your  part<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">in bringing it to birth? Nothing simpler.<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Find a spot not too far  from the ground<\/span><br><span style=\"font-style: italic\">and wait.<\/span><br><\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS;font-size:85%\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;font-family: verdana\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-9127404478796630979?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as we\u2019re thinking about Groundhog Day, how about one of the lovely movies about the spiritual path\u2026 Yes, it is silly. And yes people don\u2019t actually literally live lives over and over again in the reanimation sense. But we do play out our patterns over and over again. 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