Saturday, July 18, 2015

7.18.15 What it is and is not about



Equanimity, learning to settle down into what is happening now
today, with some measure of ease

Is not about viciously confronting our greatest fears
about our mortality, our growing age
our health challenges, or the unknown

Equanimity is about doing what fits, what works
so that we are not continually shocked and frightened
and brought up short
by what is simply here, in our lives.

Equanimity is about easing ourselves into
what is happening right now
The vestiges of the past seen and held and released
The glimpses of the future caught and felt and acknowledged
The whole deal, soft focus, we feel as we settle slowly
into saying to ourselves, Yes, this is what is.
And then letting in the ease of the big picture.

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