Posts Tagged "acceptance"
Another word on fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers,and…….
I remember several years ago when I walked into the kitchen and saw my father for the first time. Of course, it wasn’t literally the first time I’d seen him-I’d seen him thousands ofttimes before-but this was the first time I’d really seen him. It was the first time I saw what was actually there-not what I imagined to be there, not what I hoped to be there, not what I...
Read MoreLove Yourself – Grandly
… that love is the center and the core of everything, and that Self is the place where all love must begin. Those who love others grandly are those who love themselves grandly. Those who have a high toleration and acceptance of others are those who have a high toleration and acceptance of themselves. You cannot show another a part of you that you cannot show yourself. Therefore, begin where...
Read MoreSleeping Beauty
I look forward to the moment beauty is my own conceived easily like yellow dipped trees, a lazy dog the afternoon pillow of a lover’s chest when beauty is memorized and not a plea taken at the face value of Hollywood What is beauty anyway, but a shoulder to count on when others can’t see me in visual context it is perfect complexity, me entirely rather than in pieces of cheekbone, lip,...
Read MoreWhat are we looking for?…
We don’t really long to find what we are looking for. We long to discover that we are already what we are looking for, even in the midst of feelings o f ugliness,failure weakness,insecurity, or total devastation. We actually long for all the things we are running away from-ugliness, failure,fear,weakness,insecurity,devastation- because on some level, we know that in these things is where...
Read MoreRomancing the Paradox
How do we summon the right blend of practical love and constructive anger? How do we refrain from hating other people even as we fight fiercely against the hatred and danger they have helped unleash? How do we cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we neutralize the bigoted, autocratic poisons that are on the loose? How can we be both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life? How can...
Read MoreThe Deepest Acceptance
It seems to me that all our problems, all our suffering and conflicts, both personal and global, stem from one basic problem: our ignorance of who we really are. We have forgotten our inseparability from life and so we have started to fear it, and out of that fear we have gone to war with it in various ways. We have gone to war with our thoughts, our feelings, our emotions, our bodies, with...
Read MoreNo Difference
In the entire ten directions of the Buddha’s universe There is only one way When we see clearly, this is no differences in the teachings. What is there to lose? What is there to gain? If we gain something , it was there from the beginning, If we lose anything, it is hidden...
Read MoreWhat’s the point?
The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites, and to go along with whatever circumstances require, embracing things after their own inclination or according to chance, letting things be rather than getting in there way and thus allowing each and every thing, each and every appearance to pursue a meaning and purpose distinct from my...
Read MoreIllness shocks us…
Illness shocks us body and soul. Its suffering forces us into new territory. While we are often unable to find a cause for our disease, we are often moved to greater spiritual opening. As well as the bitter fruits of pain and trauma, we harvest the more subtle gifts of openness and acceptance. As we face the challenge of an illness striking unfairly and without warning, we also inventory...
Read MoreMy Work
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. The...
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