The Deepest Acceptance

It’s not about you, a separate person, being relaxed or peaceful, or trying to rest; it’s about a deeper sense of relaxation that comes with knowing that every thought, every sensation, every feeling, including all the painful ones, are already accepted in the space that you are. Knowing that, in the moment, even your nonacceptance is deeply accept

What you are is simply the capacity to think anything and to feel anything, but you are not defined by any of the thoughts and feelings that appear.

Suffering is always an invitation to discover, in the moment, what we are not deeply accepting and to see that what we are not accepting is already accepted.

If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be!

What I do see is that many people are seeking. They are trying to escape what they think and feel in the moment. They are deeply resisting present experience, but they don’t realize this is what they are doing. So it feels like suffering is just happening to them, almost as if it came from outside of them and they are victims of it.

in reality you are not a separate person, not an individual self, but the open space in which all of the little waves of experience—thoughts, sensations, sounds, feelings—come and go. You are, quite literally, what you seek. You are the consciousness that holds the dance of form.

Can you find the one who hears, the one who sees, the one who thinks? Or is the reality much, much simpler—that sounds appear, seeing happens, thoughts arise—and it’s simply another thought that says, “I’m doing that!”

When you feel totally powerless and unable to control the moment, lashing out and demonstrating power can provide some relief, if only temporarily. Attacking another human being is the perfect way to distract yourself from your own deeply uncomfortable feelings—feelings you simply don’t want to allow in yourself. It is often when we feel most helpl

what you are—as the wide-open space in which all thoughts, sensations, sounds, and feelings are allowed to appear and disappear—is also some-how inseparable from those thoughts, sensations, sounds, and feelings. You are not your thoughts, but at the same time all thoughts are allowed to come and go in the intimacy that you are. What you are is not