All I Can Be Is Who I

There Is A Foundation For Our Lives, A Place In Which Our Life Rests. That Place Is Nothing But The Present Moment, As We See, Hear, Experience What Is. If We Do Not Return To That Place, We Live Our Lives Out Of Our Heads. We Blame Others; We Complain; We Feel Sorry For Ourselves. All Of These Symptoms Show That We're Stuck In Our Thoughts. We're Out Of Touch With The Open Space That Is Always Right Here.

We Are Caught In The Contradiction Of Finding Life A Rather Perplexing Puzzle Which Causes Us A Lot Of Misery, And At The Same Time Being Dimly Aware Of The Boundless, Limitless Nature Of Life. So We Begin Looking For An Answer To The Puzzle.

Life Always Gives Us Exactly The Teacher We Need At Every Moment. This Includes Every Mosquito, Every Misfortune, Every Red Light, Every Traffic Jam, Every Obnoxious Supervisor (or Employee), Every Illness, Every Loss, Every Moment Of Joy Or Depression, Every Addiction, Every Piece Of Garbage, Every Breath. Every Moment Is The Guru.

Enlightenment Is Not Something You Achieve. It Is The Absence Of Something. All Your Life You Have Been Going Forward After Something, Pursuing Some Goal. Enlightenment Is Dropping All That.

When We Refuse To Work With Our Disappointment, We Break The Precepts: Rather Than Experience The Disappointment, We Resort To Anger, Greed, Gossip, Criticism. Yet It's The Moment Of Being That Disappointment Which Is Fruitful; And, If We Are Not Willing To Do That, At Least We Should Notice That We Are Not Willing. The Moment Of Disappointment In Life Is An Incomparable Gift That We Receive Many Times A Day If We're Alert. This Gift Is Always Present In Anyone's Life, That Moment When 'it's Not The Way I Want It!