Daily Reflection Sit

Releasing our own difficult feelings to bring more peace and balance to facing the world.

How the last of the 5 remembrances help me step back from trying to fix or solve situations and rest more easily in the way things are.

Equanimity is not a goal, it's a direction, a path of seeing and accepting things as they are. From the view of equanimity we can see what needs to be loved and held.

When clinging, aversion, casual attention are foreground.

What my mother taught me in the last days of her life.

When the Worldy Winds blow, and especially when this is unpleasant and challenging, how can we accept and align with how things are, and in that find a route to wise engagement?

The story of the cellist of Sarajavo is a metaphor for sitting in the midst of the small and large battles that we create for ourselves when we want things to be different then they are.

How the practice of equanimity integrates everything we have been practicing.