Coffee Shop Life…
I am sitting writing in a coffee shop… When we come to Winchmore Hill we take up residency in the Larder, but on Mondays it is closed, so I am sitting in another, surrounded by much deliciousness and chatter and plenty…
Plenty of people and food and choices of smoothies, brownies, healthy meals and coffees…
Life is a coffee shop now, for so many… Or a bar.
As humans much of our life has always been spent preparing and eating food, and now there is more emphasis too on drinking coffee – and then enjoying more food and beer and wine – and more coffee.
And the workplace now doesn’t necessarily need to be in a workplace anymore, it can be wherever there is wifi; often in coffee bars – the world is changing…
But the world has always been changing for time immemorial – change is constant, movement is forever – Heraclitus the Greek philosopher known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe said…
“The way up and the way down are one and the same. Living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old, are the same.”
Because of course there is seeming imbalance; to plenty, there is famine… To extreme wealth, there is poverty, to the light the dark.
To create the perfect balance, of yin and yang.
And we are also reminded that everything is unfolding as it should… Which of course doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be endeavouring to live fully, to care about things, to shift and change and grow and engage passionately in projects; to make a difference, to make changes…
To be the change, to be the difference…..
Whilst accepting what is in every moment…
And so we continue to tread the earth plane, as we have always done… Waking and sleeping, feasting and experiencing famine…
Banqueting and fasting, winning and losing… Loving and hating; in war and peace…
And as I glance around the coffee shop, full of life being lived, connecting, communicating… I reflect that this is just one small room in the vast planet…
But people are connecting and communicating globally through the amazing ‘telepathy’ of the internet, phones and computers….
We are one big global village…
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run. In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression. I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it to express itself in the dance and the motion of running.
I have also worked in the lives of others as a guide, counsellor, healer and teacher for over 40 years.
I lived as a nomad for 6 years with my husband Anadi, but my inner voice brought me back to the UK in May 2019 and I have been living and working and running in London since then….
Julia Chi
Teacher of Life Skills
www.JuliaChiTaylor.com
www.BodhisattvaDiary.com
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