Words from the Teacher
The turning of the year . . . in human days it’s a new year. In Buddha time, it’s just this moment.The season of light and dark is not restricted to the winter holiday time. We can appreciate gifts, given and received, in each moment. The gift season is perpetual and has many faces. Multitudes of conditions ask us for what is needed. We just need to pay attention and give generously from the trove of the Three Treasures. Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha help us to wake up to this open field of intense beauty that is our life, beyond time, beyond suffering, beyond all our habitual traps.
The moments, the days, the weeks, the seasons of our lives pass swiftly by. Let’s remember not to fritter them away. We are perpetually bidden to give our all, to invest our oomph entirely in the flow of NOW, caring for each breath, each activity, each companion as our very life. In awakening to this we are led to cherish all of it and serve all of it, with patience, grace and generosity.