journey to sedona...
06/17/2005
Destination – Sedona (from Casa Grande)
Estimated time as per AAA guide – 3 hours
Time taken by us to reach sedona – 7 hrs !!
we left casa grande at about 8:00am as scheduled. amit had this strong urge to eat Indian food and he was very sure to find a good Indian restaurant in phoenix…on reaching phoenix (at around 930 am), we were able to find a couple of Indian places (amit called a college time friend who had studied in university of California to help him find a good place) only to realize that lunch is not served till 11:30 am!! With long faces and empty stomach, we decided to head forward….and had no choice but to stick to our cereal and bread diet … we reached sedona at around 3:00pm….it was a Friday… we did not have any reservation since we did not expect the place to be very popular ….we headed for the oak creek campground about which we had read quite a lot and we had made up our mind to camp beside the creek…this is a campsite 20 miles north of sedona…on reaching there we found out that not only was this camp site full but all the campsites around sedona were full. The only one available was at lake mary, which is around 40 miles from sedona. Needless to say that we were disappointed…amit a little more than I was…. We had no choice but to drive to lake mary…the drive was beautiful but in our disappointment we did not see the immense beauty that was in front of us…the lake was perfect in every way but our minds were so attached to the oak creek campsite and an evening in sedona that we failed to notice the wonder that was in front of us. we got the campsite and rested a little … we felt disturbed not because of what had happened but because of the awareness of our reaction…. we had failed to appreciate what was given to us just because we got attached to an idea. So in the spirit of enjoying what we have we went to the lake to enjoy the sunset…it was nothing but wonderful!!
*** Incidentally, that very day I read a very pertinent passage from the book “that which you are seeking is causing you to seek”, which goes as follows ...
“In spiritual practice it’s good to be disturbed. We want to be disturbed as long as we can be disturbed. When you are not disturbed it’s only because you are not disturbed, not because nothing is disturbing. It is true that nothing is intrinsically disturbing, but as long as you can be disturbed, you can’t know that. So if you want to wake up, if we want to see how we create disturbance and suffering within ourselves, we will want to continue to be disturbed and to pay very close attention to being disturbed for as long as we are disturbed!!"
Hope that is not too disturbing !! :-)
Destination – Sedona (from Casa Grande)
Estimated time as per AAA guide – 3 hours
Time taken by us to reach sedona – 7 hrs !!
we left casa grande at about 8:00am as scheduled. amit had this strong urge to eat Indian food and he was very sure to find a good Indian restaurant in phoenix…on reaching phoenix (at around 930 am), we were able to find a couple of Indian places (amit called a college time friend who had studied in university of California to help him find a good place) only to realize that lunch is not served till 11:30 am!! With long faces and empty stomach, we decided to head forward….and had no choice but to stick to our cereal and bread diet … we reached sedona at around 3:00pm….it was a Friday… we did not have any reservation since we did not expect the place to be very popular ….we headed for the oak creek campground about which we had read quite a lot and we had made up our mind to camp beside the creek…this is a campsite 20 miles north of sedona…on reaching there we found out that not only was this camp site full but all the campsites around sedona were full. The only one available was at lake mary, which is around 40 miles from sedona. Needless to say that we were disappointed…amit a little more than I was…. We had no choice but to drive to lake mary…the drive was beautiful but in our disappointment we did not see the immense beauty that was in front of us…the lake was perfect in every way but our minds were so attached to the oak creek campsite and an evening in sedona that we failed to notice the wonder that was in front of us. we got the campsite and rested a little … we felt disturbed not because of what had happened but because of the awareness of our reaction…. we had failed to appreciate what was given to us just because we got attached to an idea. So in the spirit of enjoying what we have we went to the lake to enjoy the sunset…it was nothing but wonderful!!
*** Incidentally, that very day I read a very pertinent passage from the book “that which you are seeking is causing you to seek”, which goes as follows ...
“In spiritual practice it’s good to be disturbed. We want to be disturbed as long as we can be disturbed. When you are not disturbed it’s only because you are not disturbed, not because nothing is disturbing. It is true that nothing is intrinsically disturbing, but as long as you can be disturbed, you can’t know that. So if you want to wake up, if we want to see how we create disturbance and suffering within ourselves, we will want to continue to be disturbed and to pay very close attention to being disturbed for as long as we are disturbed!!"
Hope that is not too disturbing !! :-)
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