Trust In Things Being As They Are

What Does Open Us Is Sharing Our Vulnerabilities. Sometimes We See A Couple Who Has Done This Difficult Work Over A Lifetime. In The Process, They Have Grown Old Together. We Can Sense The Enormous Comfort, The Shared Quality Of Ease Between These People. It Is Beautiful, And Very Rare. Without This Quality Of Openness And Vulnerability, Partners Don't Really Know Each Other; They Are One Image Living With Another Image.

Body Tension Will Always Be Present If Our Good Feeing Is Just Ordinary, Self-centered Happiness. Joy Has No Tension In It, Because Joy Accepts Whatever Is As It Is.

Most Of Our Difficulties, Our Hopes, And Our Worries Are Empty Fantasies. Nothing Has Ever Existed Except This Moment. That's All There Is. That's All We Are. Yet Most Human Beings Spend 50 To 90 Percent Or More Of Their Time In Their Imagination, Living In Fantasy. We Think About What Has Happened To Us, What Might Have Happened, How We Feel About It, How We Should Be Different, How Others Should Be Different, How It's All A Shame, And On And On; It's All Fantasy, All Imagination. Memory Is Imagination. Every Memory That We Stick To Devastates Our Life.

Trust In Things Being As They Are Is The Secret Of Life. But We Don't Want To Hear That. I Can Absolutely Trust That In The Next Year My Life Is Going To Be Changed, Different, Yet Always Just The Way It Is.

Enlightenment Is Not Something You Achieve. It Is The Absence Of Something. All Your Life You Have Been Going Forward After Something, Pursuing Some Goal. Enlightenment Is Dropping All That.