From Shinei…
How do you meet your life? This life right now? Are you meeting it as a task to be accomplished? A problem to fix? As an opponent to brace yourself against? Right now, you have a choice. Take a deep breath, relax the body and drop all notions of past and future. What do you notice now? Can you feel the touch of your clothing on your skin? Can you smell the air? What sounds do you hear? Where does your body feel the earth? Where does the earth feel your body?
This life is not a problem to be solved. It is not a goal to be accomplished. You are not a problem to be fixed. You are not a goal to be accomplished. You, this life, are a miraculous appearance to be deeply experienced and appreciated. Please appreciate your life. THIS life, now and here.