We live and move according to our deepest values. It’s not always clear what they are, but our actions reveal them, not our words.
Nothing lasts for ever, but many things persist for a long time. So if your answer to unwanted experiences is to wait them out, then you could be enduring something for a long time, and that holding-out itself becomes a source of suffering. You must find the acceptance of each moment, every moment in itself.
True freedom is not to escape fear, anxiety, and depression, but to accept them; to allow and include them in and as our being. The rejection of some aspect of our being as unwanted or unwelcome is the birth of separation, the creation of the idea of division where there is only wholeness. Allowing what-is…
Wanting, craving, thirsting, clinging. This is the way of non-acceptance, the way of misery. And so the opposite is true: Desirelessness, non-grasping, non-attachment, openness. This is the way of acceptance, the way of joy and peace.
Our trouble starts when we privilege thinking over direct experience. When this becomes an ingrained habit of relating to the world and ourselves even the suggestion to drop out of the mind and into the non-conceptual being can be violently resisted. But for the sake of our peace and freedom we must learn to let…
Let it in, let it all in. Let in your regret. All the feelings around that, let them in. All the shoulds and shouldn’ts about it, let them in. All the shame and the doubt, let it all in. The discomfort, let it in. Your reactions, the plans and strategies, let it in. Let it…
Keep it simple Have no expectations Take whatever comes