We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

The soul is love, joy. Joy. Peace. Wisdom.

The question we need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.