Laburnums

The heat continues unabated. But within the discomfort and the sweltering conditions we see flowers blossoming to their fullest only in the hottest months of the year; nature in its finest expression and so justifiable. Bright, beautiful and soothing to the eyes. Nature’s inherent element of balance, the element of poetic justice, of good and evil intertwined.*

A laburnum or Amaltas and Gulmohar in full bloom and in huge large bunches all around our beautiful city Karachi.

I was born and brought up in Karachi but all these years I never noticed that the entire city is inundated with trees and flowers. Probably that’s what happens when we remain engrossed in our thoughts, we see but we don’t actually look; we hear but don’t really listen. In the foreground we are interacting with someone or busy doing something but in the background, in our minds, we are always thinking mostly the same, scrapped thoughts repeating over and over again. In case of any unpleasant incident then thinking is further reenergized by the movie-making of all the negative events and running that reel repetitively. Ah the agony of human race the dukkha or suffering caused mainly by ourselves.

So Peace be upon us. In what we say, what we do, what we believe and what we think.

May Laburnums to bloom into your lives, with affection and love -

Sonya. (Day 68)

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