February 15, 2009
- Donate Joy -
The day I posted about the the flower sermon I decided to walk part of the way home after work.
I work on 23rd street in Manhatten (right by the Shakespeare Lodge No. 750!) and live way out in Brooklyn, so it’s quite a walk. The whole way takes me about 3 hours, but generally after work it’s late, dark, and cold, so I’ll only walk down to Wall Street. That’s about an hour, and after being stuck in an office all day, it’s usually just what I need. And yes, I do the whole gym thing as well, but sometimes moving around outside is important too.
Going down Broadway by NYU, I saw some graffiti on the wall that struck me as particularly synchronous, given that I’d just posted about the flower sermon, evolution, and the general flowering of the mind as a stage of evolution. Buddha’s quote on generosity also came to mind (see the sidebar underneath the creative commons license).
Seeing these two within a few feet of each other really made me smile, a little chalk version of the flower sermon just for me. So I took pictures to share with you as well:
