Inspiration all Around

So we all know the practice, being with whatever it is that arises, so how will we practice with this? Where can we put our attention that will benefit everyone involved? How do we practice with the discomfort & impermanence?
Personally it’s been a time of serious reflection regarding my relationship with praise & blame, knowing both come with their own trap and their own form of suffering.

I feel confident that this is all unfolding as it should, and just wanted to let y’all know what’s happening with us.
May all beings be free from suffering,
May all beings be happy,
May all beings know liberation.

 

Vinny Ferraro wrote this at the end of a letter from urban dharma. It touched me. He was talking about urban dharma and changes that coming to it but it obviously applies to any event in life. For me, I've been feel a strong connection with the dharma in my life. I guess it comes with change and struggle. I fluctuate between the feeling of sadness and lose, letting go, impermanence and also the excitement of potential, hope, new beginnings and freedom. Like Vinny says, these both come with their own trap and their own form of suffering.

 

I find it difficult not to just pinball back and forth between the two finding suffering on both ends.

 

Luckily, there are also moments of acceptance and settling into a completeness and wholeness that feels so right. Yesterday walking home for work, I felt a strong okayness settle over me. Just being in the moment, knowing all was as it should be. It felt so good and yet was so fleeting. I had a thought of wishing I could stay there forever, then realized I was just forming attachment to it and causing myself suffering. So let it go by the wayside and felt it be swept away.