250903 What I learned in my studies this morning 5

Today's Meditation:

The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (ed. by Melvin McLeod), The Buddha

This morning reminds me of an old, Vaudeville-style joke: "So I'm sitting in the doctor's office, minding my own business when all of a sudden...."

Though I'm not sure why: all is calm at the moment. (Maybe I'm still in the build-up.)

I wait for my doctor, accepting the sawdust of missed appointment times, cutting short any narrative in my head that sniffs of people in this office deliberately annoying me.

I think of times when I've been the one off schedule, perhaps through no fault of my own, and feeling terrible for it, hoping I can make up for whatever burden I may have placed upon others. Isn't it only fair to assume the same of my doctor and the staff?

If I dismiss the feeling that I am harmed, I stop the harm. I transform my suffering.

Part of my Buddha-nature showing through.