We have all we need for enlightenment inside ourselves, our bodies, hearts, and minds ....
We possess the teacher's wisdom though we too rarely see this ...
Keep going inside, inside deep, and you will find what is real...
Just keep breathing, in and out and in and out, and keeping your awareness bright and curious ...
Inhabit that awareness ....
Be that awareness ...
Listen to the heart which does not lie ... it points the way to the path of wisdom ...
Remember to love yourself just as you are ... and hold that "self" in compassion, and you wish to hold all others ...
Our lives ARE like rivers where we must take the leap of faith, and let go into the stream ... stop trying to hold on to what we think is solid : the logs of identity, the rocks of opinions, the shore of our feelings...
And these rivers rarely move in linear form ... they twist and turn and what we see and meet is always changing ...
Ever changing ... the path we're on, our bodies, our perceptions and feelings ... keep watching this until you know that solidity is an illusion ...
The above some fragments of insight I now see with some clarity and conviction after sitting on my zafu at Spirit Rock for four weeks, and for each of these fragments I could journey forth with more to reflect on, more to share. There is both a lightness in me and a solidity and rootedness coming from my heart for which I am deeply grateful. How long will I be stepping on the earth this gently and assuredly?
No need to worry about this, because just being with WHAT IS NOW is enough, is ALL there is ...
What is NOW ? A golden sunny late afternoon in my bedroom, my cat Jackson stretched out on a warm hardwood floor looking ever so happy with his life, an anonymous grey pigeon perched on my roof waiting to steal some bird seed from the feeder, and sounds of Bach's Goldberg Variation #2 that I just played still echoing in my mind.... each thing I perceive is IN me, as is the music -- a fact I discovered on retreat when in the midst of deep silence a refrain from my beloved Bach's composition threaded its way into my field of awareness as my fingers started to do the playing of it, ever so gently in my lap. It was an extraordinary moment among so many others in that long silence!
I feel great peace.
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