March. Again? If you have pandemic fatigue — I feel you. May this be of benefit.

It's in the profound relaxation that can emerge when we get very quiet and still and trust that whatever invisible forces that have carried us along will continue to do so -- without us needing to manage, control, and in some cases... even intellectually understand.

Who steals someone else’s words? Someone who doesn’t trust their own voice. That time my website was plagiarized

There is a parable that is fairly known in Zen Buddhism that I wanted to share with you.
It's been lodged in the back of my mind during this expanse of time that we might lovingly reflect on as :
"WTF COVID / Quarantine / Political Unrest / Environmental Emergencies / Social Justice Comeuppance"

Your wholeness means INCLUSIVE OF EVERYTHING so your issues might seem like they're less of a big deal.

I once heard the Buddhist teacher Jetsun Tenzin Palmo warn that if we expect our practice to only *feel good* — sweetness stripped of the medicine that helps us develop — that we run the risk of becoming “spiritually flabby”.

I often think of what it might be like to live as though I *actually* believed that all things are interconnected -- not just as a pretty concept but as a way of interacting with the world.

Many of these less than preferable emotions - like sadness, grief + tenderness can even be gateways of profound connection.

Am I wrong though?

Can you have an experience without rushing to judge it or classify it? 
Or make it mean something about you?

The one thing that I didn’t expect is that the moment I wrote a book about self worth and self-doubt, all of my self-doubt would rise to the surface. 

Bear witness to the life cycle of your experience.

Feel the soft and unforced nature of your body breathing

Softening allows our densest material to float to the surface

The gaze of others inhibits your reflection.

We become the owners of everything that has happened to us. 

TAKE VERY GOOD CARE OF WHAT BELONGS TO YOU .