Entering the Void with the Eyes Open

The greatest wisdom is letting be.  Letting be is a movement of availability, of acceptance—and ultimately of love.  How can we achieve such an extraordinary capacity—to love consciously?   I suspect it is not what we think.  It is not straining beyond ourselves—it is just the opposite.  It is going down, practicing love and acceptance on animals—including the animal of the body.  The wise Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah urged people to be humble—to be like earth worms, digging down into the earth of themselves.  When I sit sometimes, I reflect that this body I have been given links me to the distant past.  I marvel that this body came to me from a great chain of humanity—reaching back to our common mothers.  In meditation, this body is revealed to be a vast cave of wonders, like Lascaux. Who knows what wonders might be discovered if I can shine the light of attention? I have heard and read that we contain worlds, universes.  I might glimpse this and hear this. If I can let it be.

— http://tracycochran.org/2012/05/let-it-be/

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