Without Real Effort

Without real effort:

so now I’m approaching the end of my meditation instructors training, six months of learning how to teach, and after 30 years of practice — every aspect leading to this point has been life changing for me. I’m fortunate to have discovered meditation during a troubled time of heavy drinking, loneliness, the end of a long term relationship, and so many unanswered questions concerning my life’s path, actually, so many questions simply unasked for fear of having no answers. Meditation helped me gain the courage to ask, and more so, to be okay with the fear of not knowing answers, or even what to ask of myself. What my practice did was to help me relax as the person that I was, while providing space for the person that I found myself becoming. It still does, and all without real effort to this cause, just a natural unfolding of my life.

easy, effortless.

yet not without action.

and that’s an important understanding, for when there’s talk of least effort it’s sometimes taken as no action at all, a passive approach to life, and this couldn’t be farther than the truth at all. My example is ending my relationship with alcohol, that it wasn’t a battle of hard knuckle withdrawal, filled with interventions and rooms of smoke filled meetings. Although that’s a path so many have to take, it wasn’t mine, for whatever reason…