Life Arrives

Life arrives: 

there's no real practice to our letting go, it's not a conscious thought of grace and composure in the instant of our greatest sorrow - this is just how life arrives to us, it's all been a continuous surrender since the moment we were born, letting go of everything once held dear for the embrace of life to come, and through this way we proceed to the ultimate point of our surrender. 

it's not something that we practice.

but only what we are.

and yet we can bring a sense of awareness to this, seeing more closely how our life is constantly involved in the process of change, evolving from one stage of life to another and with no small amount of grief and sorrow known along the way. But even awareness isn't a practice, not really, it's most truly what we are through the course of all this change, a one and only constant - awareness is what remains when all else is surrendered. It's who we are, without any need of practice, natural.

it's how life arrives to us.

with awareness being the grace that allows our letting go.

there it is, our only true spiritual practice, and it's just life, experienced through all of its depth and fullness, knowing that every last thing is eventually surrendered, and that life prepares in this way. We are already wise in the way of the Buddha, having always known change, certain of our grief and sorrow - and yet still fearlessly we live on, constantly surrendering all that we are right now for the sake of our continuous becoming. 

through our letting go...

life arrives. 

~

Peace, Eric