FRUITION” IMPLIES that at some future time you will feel good. One of the most powerful Buddhist teachings is that as long as you are wishing for things to change, they never will. As long as you’re wanting yourself to get better, you won’t. As long as you are oriented toward the future, you can never just relax into what you already have or alread

first. The pendulum of life swings, sweeping up to one side, but before it turns and swings the other way there is a pause, that magical moment where everything is possible, where problems reveal their hidden solutions. This magical space is what we call chaos. It is natural at first to feel anxiety in this space when familiar movement stops and no