Can We Embrace "Yes Buts?" Painting The Sidewalk Joan Tollifson - Stillness Speaks
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Can We Embrace "Yes Buts?" Painting The Sidewalk Joan Tollifson - Stillness Speaks
By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.
Everybody knows it, but almost everybody is deluded into thinking there’s something more to learn, something hidden and esoteric that is revealed only to a special few. Only after years of searching do we find that there’s nothing more to find. Will we be relieved or disappointed? What is there to gain from practice, after all? We realize that our
... See moreNevertheless, the more say 'yes' to what is offered, the more 'yes becomes wisdom. To trust, to flow with it all is exquisite joy when I am able to allow it. The rewards are immediate and unmistakable. A feeling of deep peace and joy which in turn has helped me in my trusting. The result of this trust has been a positive upward spiralling in my lif
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