“Separate yourself from disturbance and face whatever appears before you”
~Master Hongshi

Sometimes we think we are stuck, stuck in habit, stuck in our responsibilities, stuck in our emotions. But in reality, we are never stuck and at any moment we have the opportunity to recognize our freedom, to let go, stop thinking, and meet exactly what is before us. We have the power to separate ourselves from inner disturbance, to release any view, belief or story and enter this very moment of living. Simple, open and unbounded.

What is actually happening right now? Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, listening. Relax into the sky-like openness of your very own heart-mind that receives whatever appears. Where are your problems if you cease thinking about them? Let’s release the imagined world of ‘me and my problems’ and come into the real living breathing reality of our lives together, right here, right now. Whatever is appearing before you is the entrance gate to freedom, enter it completely and release the worry of thousands of years.

Love,
Shinei