Maha Ghosananda asks, “If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice?”

At face value, it’s a very simple question – yet one in which demands thoughtful introspection. Indeed, what good is happiness if not sustained? Simply put, it is incomplete.

Instead, we must look to this world with a ‘beginner’s mind’s – absent the burden of judgement and fear. In this, we begin to realize the delicacies of this new paradigm – that we must abandon the old, to gain the fullness of new. We can either ‘become lost in a smaller state of consciousness,’ Jack Kornfield writes, or we can look to those struggles as an opportunity to become whole – to lend vital meaning to this journey.

And, in the end, the only question remaining  – my friends, which do you choose?

In peace, my sweet friends…

Namaste ❣