Smile To The Cloud In Your Tea – Parallax Press

“Friends, this flower is a wondrous reality. As I hold the flower before you, you all have a chance to experience it. Making contact with a flower is to make contact with a wondrous reality. It is making contact with life itself. “Mahakassapa smiled before anyone else because he was able to make contact with the flower. As long as obstacles remain

Sylvia Boorstein says this is like a slight shaft of sunlight peeking through the clouds in the midst of pelting rain. That sliver of light can give us the perspective to know all is not gloom and doom.

Now, with gratitude, allow the image of the person to fade away, but maintain the essence of loving presence, that powerful quality of kindness and care.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.