Best Of

Taking into account the current crazy rent prices in my city, I am on purpose living in a cheap rented flat that is OK but has its downsides. I've had visitors call it a dump which did hurt. Just now, I've had some student-age workers over who were elated at the cost-benefit of the flat and practically begged me to let their friend take over my lease once I move to the flat that is being renovated. I can't seem to remember the exact saying at the moment, but it's like "one man's terrible situation is another man's dream". The same principle can be applied to our lives and spiritual standing in general. Iz interesting.

I can relate to that. I still think it's valuable to try to sort out the more reliable and likely from the lesser. But from a place that you never really know for sure, can always learn more, much depends on perspective and some things will likely always be out of reach.

Some people describe a spiritual journey as a process of opening yourself up to everything that made us who we are. To a consistent pilgrim on such a journey, that includes an eventual re-visiting of everything we ever tried to hold on to that wouldn't stay around, everything we ever tried to push away that wouldn't leave and everything experienced that we chose to ignore.
They are called attachments because somewhere within us, we still carry them with our true freedom being ever hobbled by their weight.

I think that meditation is that process of preparing oneself for the chance of returning to each attachment, each addition to our hobblings, but where our initiating responses to them were formally mixtures of greed, anger or delusion, they can be potentially re-met again but this time with the compassion, love and wisdom that was missing in our origin stories.
Perhaps your 30 minutes of shower time describes part of this process.