Peace, joy, openness, clarity, etc. These are all delicious.
But may we also disturb the peace, be closed off, muddy the clarity.
Feel anger, fear, tiredness, depression, etc.
We must never deny our humanity. We must not fear getting dirty again.
Because tell you what. Life will always present itself. Reality is
infinite potential. We must integrate all that we reject as the display
of our luminous nature and through emptiness we survive.
And I
want to assert that true freedom lies in just being human. Beyond
samsara and nirvana, no where to dwell. Yet playing in the murky waters
of samsara and being free in the vastness of nirvana.
As Dogen asserted, "Enlightenment is intimacy with all things."