Mercy!

Here's something to meditate upon: Our present experience, as it is, can never be "wrong". How can life, that infinite intelligence that grows the grass and burns the Sun, get anything "wrong"? 

  

Sadness is not wrong. Fear is not wrong. Confusion is not wrong. Our pain is not wrong. 

Resisting our pain, pushing it away - that's what makes everything seem wrong. And yet here is a deeper truth, for those who are open: Even our resistance of pain is not wrong. If that's what's happening, it cannot be wrong. It is a valid expression of life in the moment. Beyond 'right' and 'wrong', this love that we are even embraces our resistance. The Now is vast, and forgiving.

You see, we never actually "resist" our pain. We just never learned how to be with it. How to sit with it. Stay with it. Have a cup of tea with it. See it as a beloved friend, at home in the vastness of ourselves.

  

This is what I explore with people in my books, meetings and retreats: how to stop running away from the present moment. How to remember who we really are, no matter what is happening in our lives. How to rest, even in the midst of the storm.

In truth, we never have to look further than our present moment experience  to find that vast and timeless intelligence that forms galaxies out of nothing and pumps blood around the body in deep dreamless sleep. When we run away from this sacred moment, whatever shape it takes, we may just be missing its deeper secrets...
~Jeff Foster