This week, I invite you to feel the texture of mindfulness in your body and mind.  How does mindfulness (a warm attention to what is arising and wholehearted acceptance that is friendly and embracing) really feel?  His Holiness the Dalai Lama says: “This moment is the only place where we can experience love.” A mindful heart/mind is open, balanced, uncluttered and loving. Ease comes with full attention to the present moment; and once we see it we can fully trust in that.

Mindfulness is the calling of awareness from our depth. The more we practice, the easier it becomes. Tune in to the unfolding of beautiful qualities of wholesomeness from your practice.   You can delight in the wholesome, being reminded not to take it for granted.  Appreciate it as a sign of  growth. But don’t be trapped by the idea that it is supposed to be there and unwholesome isn’t. Awareness is not enthralled by what we designate to be either negative or positive.  Like a mirror reflecting, without distortion whatever is before it, it sees both with equal ease.