I recommend reading the book by Tara Brach and also love this reference in the book about fullness and belonging
Remember we are NO-THING and all is affected by the attention and focus we place upon it.
Allow life to live through you. Enjoy every breath and every emotion as it flows in and through you.
Enjoy the following POEM...read it often and allow the energy of it to flow through you, too enhance your experiences and open your mind.
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, PH.D
Our intrinsic belonging to this world…we are No-THING…not limited to any passive experience
and everything belonging to the whole.
In Roger Keyes’s poem “hokusai says”
THE TEACHINGS OF A WISE JAPANESE ARTIST REMIND us of our belonging to life and of our capacity to open to its fullness.
Hokusai says – Poem by Roger Keyes
Hokusai says look carefully.
He says pay attention, notice.
He says keep looking, stay curious.
He says there is no end to seeing.
He says look forward to getting old.
He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are.
He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it’s interesting.
He says keep doing what you love.
He says keep praying.
He says every one of us is a child, every one of us is ancient, every one of us has a body.
He says every one of us is frightened.
He says every one of us has to find a way to live with fear.
He says everything is alive –shells, buildings, people, fish, mountains, trees.
Wood is alive.
Water is alive.
Everything has its own life.
Everything lives inside us.
He says live with the world inside you.
He says it doesn’t matter if you draw, or write books.
It doesn’t matter if you saw wood, or catch fish.
It doesn’t matter if you sit at home and stare at the ants on your veranda
or the shadows of the trees and grasses in your garden.
It matters that you care.
It matters that you feel.
It matters that you notice.
It matters that life lives through you.
Contentment is life living through you.
Joy is life living through you.
Satisfaction and strength is life living through you.
Peace is life living through you.
He says don’t be afraid.
Don’t be afraid.
Look, feel, let life take you by the hand.
Let life live through you
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