What is home? Home is where you feel the deepest affection, no matter where you are. That is from the dictionary as well as many other definitions.
Does this mean, if I do not have a home to call my own, yet I have my heart- I am not homeless?
Having a space to take care of and clean is work. But it is a wonderful metaphor for the cleaning we need to do in our minds on a daily basis.
I learned the above on a Vipassana meditation retreat in Occidental a few years back. With a 10-day vow of silence and 10 hours a day set up for meditating and learning a specific method, I experienced that the mind is going much faster than most of us are aware of.
I did some weeding there and coming out of it I felt more positive and had some wonderful happy dreams. However as I was not able to keep it up, negativity crawled in again or I had made space to receive the negative along with the positive.
Anyways, space is sacred, whether it is personal home space or mental and body space. The question is, how to open up the right amount to let the new in and live and then to protect yourself from getting scars in the process.
Thank you – really nice feeling and release of suffering for not having traditional and so much wanted cozy home:)