Dharma blog:
We human beings are always at play in the ordinary conditions of our life. We experience our days and nights through the lens of all our previous experiences, our fantasies and expectations of a “future”, our temperament, through our senses, our preferences, our dislikes, our opinions, our emotions. Most of this is automatic …..unless we have a steady practice of stopping, breathing, looking. Sitting in meditation regularly we develop a habit of relaxing into an open, still attitude of receptivity which receives whatever comes along just as it is.
Uncovering our natural and unclouded mind through daily meditation allows us to be more at ease, to be aware of the primal and unconditioned flow of the energies of life, even as we engage wholeheartedly with our circumstances. We are never apart from this flow, just as we are never apart from our circumstances. Our life is infinite and open. When we see our life in these terms, fluid and dynamic, we open to possibilities that we are blind to when we get stuck in our limited, habitual views.