Today’s favourite poses: Tree
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
When problems arise in our life, we usually want simple answers: yes or no, this or that. But reality is a world of subtlety and paradox, a world of complexity, continuums, and change. We want to know why (is this happening?) and how (can I fix it?). We want the feeling of perceived comfort that comes when we think we’ve finally figured life out. But the truth is, we’ll never figure life out. Residing in the experiential “what” is the way we find the rock bottom security that is possible from practice.
The reason we’ll never figure out life by asking “why” and “how” is that it’s impossible to say what life is. In fact, life isn’t anything. It’s not meaningful, it’s not meaningless, it’s not a challenge, it’s not an opportunity, it’s not a process, it’s not a nonduality. Life isn’t difficult or hopeless. Nor does it correspond to any of the other colorings of mind we use to describe and explain what we think and feel. Life is what it is.
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