The auspicious art of acceptance

 

I give a big bear hug to all that is, was or will be—a holistic acceptance. The gentle courage of approving all dimensions of my existence—past, present and future.

Carrying an emotional hospitality; enjoying life in the pulsing pause between memories and desires. Because that’s how my body and mind’s biological apparatus—brain—operates to give me a concoction of emotions from the saddest to the happiest.

I take little sips of mammoth wholeness by being in touch with existential totality without the erasure of what happened to me in the past, what constitutes me now and what will become of me in future.

A graceful allowance for vulnerabilities, flaws and fragilities because that’s the scaffolding for strength, power and success. The making of most of my time—by holding it without any grievance, through unresisted presence, by a gentle witnessing of the self. And in the process, making peace with my own becoming. Accepting the dignity of what has happened to me in the past; carrying soft consent to impermanence in the present; holding my dreams for future alive, vibrant and fresh.  

I’m in acceptance of this leela that pulls the individual cart of my existence. I won’t judge my past or future at the cost of the present. A silent reconciliation with time and embracing the unfinished. That’s what pulls my creativity, my urge to be, become something more, something extra, something unique. To be a creator—a radical as well as gentle assent to being.

I carry the steak of this marvelous expansion of mother existence from my end. I just give a huge bear hug to all that was, is and will be on my path. That defines my life. That gives one more little line of cosmic expansion from my end.

Let’s celebrate our body and one of its states of being—mind. Let’s accept the body’s ways of survival through reflections about the past, present and future. Why belittle one at the cost of the other?

This is a lovely leela. Colorful. And it happens because there is this beautiful quality of the human brain to enable our body to be shoved in multiple dimensions. That gives poetry, art, science, and all that we witness around us. It is the driver of all this thoroughfare. Enjoy it. Let all this happen. In total acceptance is liberation from all this, not in negation.

That’s how I enjoy the sweet tension of being in the present moment as an admirer of life, letting it arrive as it is; stable with a feeling of being at home in all this apparent flux.

The pilgrim paying homage to the past, reverent attention to the present and graceful allowance and compassionate continuity for the future.