Maha Ati by Trungpa & words from Reggie Ray

There‘s a wonderful saying that I quote a lot, from an article called 'Maha Ati,' by Trungpa Rinpoche in the late seventies, which is:

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness toward all situations and all emotions and to all people, experiencing everything totally, without mental reservation, and without centralizing onto oneself.

The thing is, this isn‘t just a nice meditation instruction. When you follow that instruction, you begin to realize that, when you step beyond all of the mental evasion that we go through all the time, and all of our attempts to block things out and shut them down, situations actually nourish you. In that moment of opening, you feel wild, and you feel joy. The wildness doesn‘t come from the experience; the wildness comes from letting go into it—letting go of our reservation and our mental evasion, through our practice...you let go, and then there‘s this vast affirmation of beingness.

Reggie Ray