The only way to achieve maximum openness is to arrive at every moment without a single preconception, judgement, fear or foregone conclusion, forget bias. We must step into the mystery of life naked and undefended.
We can learn to encounter life directly, without anything to mediate its intensity. When we truly hate what's happening, our instinct is to flee from it like a house on fire. But if we can learn to turn around and enter that fire, to let it burn all our resistance away, then we find ourselves arising from the ashes with a new sense of power and freedom.
-Raphael Cushnir, from 365 Nirvana, Here and Now by Josh Baran - May 10, 2008
I am spiritually digging the "open to life" theme of the recent Daily Dharma readings.
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