Above every cloud there is a blue sky; a panoramic, receptive awareness, where we take in all that a situation, a moment, or person offers, without judging, eliminating, or labelling.

It is pure and positive gazing that abandons all negative pushback so we can begin to recognise the inherent dignity of the whole. 

However, to find this place does take a lot of unlearning of our habitual responses. We have to work and develop our own practices, whereby we can recognise our compulsive and repetitive patterns and allow them the freedom to go.

In doing so, we can also allow ourselves to be freed from the need to “take control of any given situation”—as if we ever really could anyway! 

The work (gong) is to dissolve our addiction to distinctions and judgments, which we mistake for clarity of thinking. Most of us think we are our thinking, that our discernment is well honed yet almost all thinking is compulsive, repetitive, and habitual. We are often in a place where we are forever writing our inner commentaries on everything, commentaries that if we truly had clarity would show us that we always reach the same practiced conclusions. That is why all forms of reflection and contemplation teach a way of quieting this compulsively driven and unconsciously programmed mind. 

Traditional Wisdom wisely called this process “the dissolving of thoughts”. We don’t fight, repress, deny, identify with, or even judge them; we merely dissolve them. We are so much more than our thoughts about things, and we will feel this more as an unlearning than a learning of any new content.

When we practice consistently; a sense of our autonomy and private self-importance—what we think of as our “self”— slowly falls away. The  “I,” “Me,” “My,” self that we experience as our only self, reveals itself as largely a creation of an unbalanced mind. 

Through regular practice we become less and less interested in protecting this self-created, relative identity. We don’t have to judge it; it calmly falls away of its own accord, and we begin to experience a kind of natural humility, compassion, simplicity and patience.

If our practice goes deep, our whole view of the world will change from fear to connection. We stop living inside our fragile and encapsulated self, no longer having any need to protect it. In silence, we move from the consciousness of the ego to the heart/mind connection of the soul, moving from the fear driven awareness, to becoming aware of being love-drawn. 

In a few words that’s it! 

When we are connected with our own compassionate courage, we are led into a presence full of vitality, supported by a natural gracefulness, which when spinning through and around our heart mind, dances us into the beauty of a clear blue sky. 🌌 

Let us put aside

how different we are

here where

what is about to happen 

meets

what already has

Meet as bees do

directly from our hearts 

with the hum of our wings

that silent glorious 

hum of life

Lifting us upward in the journey 

Called life.

💕💕💕💕