Renewal

Is there a way to operate in daily life completely free of past interpretation or future projection? Please go into this yourself, this is a very important question. We always anticipate some new knowledge, habit, or ideal that will save us in the future and provide continuity. Is it possible to have peace, not tomorrow, but at this exact second? It is a constant shedding of old conditioning, thoughts, desires, and freedom from our ideas about what’s to come. We are afraid to look at such things within ourselves because we place value in the thoughts that arise from feeling discomfort. To become like a child again, one must come to the whole experience of life empty-handed, to surrender all false notions you have generated about yourself and the world. In that way there is renewal in each moment, the birthplace of compassion.

-S.L.

Art by Mark Acetelli