Monkey Body, Monkey Mind
Monkey body, monkey mind.
Watching the monkeys outside our window. The howler monkeys. Yesterday we saw a family. The baby was so tiny that I was afraid it would fall out of the tree. The mom climbs ahead and up, up, up. Then she sits and waits. The little baby slowly, bravely found her way up and when she was almost to the mom, the mom would take off again. I finally figured out that how the mom teaches the baby to climb. ”Follow me!” At one point the mom was up really high, the very top of the branches, and the baby got stuck. The baby just could only go so far and then couldn’t figure it out or was afraid. So the mom came back down almost to the baby and sat there and waited. That seemed to encourage the baby and she got going again. I could’ve watched for hours. The monkeys move and fly from branch to branch and then they stay still for long periods. Is that like your mind?
