Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX
Overcast Afternoon at Blue West, Lake Meredith, Fritch TX, May 11, 2012
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is located on the shores of a Canadian River Reservoir near Fritch TX north of Amarillo TX.
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX
- Verizon cell phone and broadband service - good signal and reasonable connection speeds.
- Go to the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area website
- Locate Lake Meredith National Recreation Area on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Saturday, May 12, 2012 - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX
- Lake Meredith is nearly dry, and has been for years. The Canadian River drainage seems to be suffering a severe drought. Ute Lake, where I camped before coming here, is also a reservoir on the Canadian and it too is nearly dry. Image: Camped at Blue West, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 11, 2012.
- Friday, May 11, 2012 - Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX
- Image: Camped at Blue West, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 11, 2012.
Emptiness
Emptiness shouldn't be thought of as a negative. A lot of people misconstrue that as meaning the opposite of something is nothing. But this is something slightly different. I don't want to get into comparative religious things because that's a complicated topic. But if we were to think about it, the problem of life and death has to do with what comes in between, and what comes in between is an awful lot of suffering. We're not just talking about the pain of suffering, we're talking about suffering. Our common everyday parlance it's called stress. That's a kind of suffering and we die from this. From the standpoint of Zen Buddhism this life isn't some sort of stage mock-up for something else that comes after this. This is what we have. We're right here and we're being in this present moment. What you want to think about when you think about emptiness is a way in which to stay present. Just as, in a way, in a very strange kind of concept, there really is no such thing as time. There's no dress rehersal for anything.
The Artful Mind, Reverend Sohaku Flagg, Rinzai Buddhist priest, in an interview with Nanci Race, Jan/Feb 2003