Our Only Practice

Our only practice:

really, our only practice is one of allowing — and indeed, it’s a practice of a full lifetime commitment, all the way to the last breath taken and then surrendered. We are learning to allow what each moment holds without the interference of our denial, that everything is happening in the only possible way it ever could and this is proven by virtue of whatever’s appearing right now. This isn’t a blind acceptance or a call for inaction, no, it’s more dynamic than that, the practice of allowing is an artful acknowledgement of what’s present and our own fluid response in return. It’s a play between recognition and response that continues through an entire lifetime, a practice, and once aware that life is constantly allowing, we’re more relaxed and easy through the manner we respond.

we’re artist.

living our only practice.

for me this is the true gift of meditation, each moment is a small recognition of allowing, that often thoughts appear and seem to intrude upon a peaceful state of mind. An immediate reaction would be to push the thought away, denying it’s moment to appear. And yet through many years of practice I’ve come to simply bear witness to a thought’s arrival, knowing my effort to deny its appearance only leads to further battles of the mind. It’s the art of allowing, of recognition and response, and even an…