-Thich Nhat Hanh
Such simple but profound truth in that statement from this little man. To be alive is enough and to know you are alive is the ultimate, is it not? That is the basis of all the teaching that has come my way over the last decade of so called "hardship". It is finally sinking in.
To experience that aliveness deeply and fully is basically what we all want...truly want ...and all we need, whether it seems that way or not. That's joy...that is true happiness.
Where do we find this sense of aliveness? In the present moment, in the here and the now. It just is. Yet most of us are spending all our precious energy clinging to the past or projecting onto the future. We are hooked on doing. How foolish that is.
Instead of walking into the full expansion of being alive, we contract and retract away from it in fear using time and "seeking more" to do.
I did these videos up in February on retraction and expansion. You may or may not get a bit of something from them. I share them here again because I feel compelled to do so.
Can you hear my lovely old dog Hiedi snoring in the back ground? lol I have counted over 100 things I could improve upon in these videos, including the misuse of the English langauge on many occassions and my William Shatner speaking techniques (okay when he did the pauses, me not so much...lol). How imperfect these and I, as the human delivering them, are. Isn't it amazing, though, to be able to recognize the imperfect human in our experiences and be okay with it? lol
All is well!
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