Wholeness

 Legend has it that Bodhidharma stared at a wall for 9 years. He already has done it so that “you” don’t have to do it. “You” have only one thing to do, when the inner restlessness, boredom, lovelessness, impatience, anger, depression, loneliness, disquiet, aggression, clinginess, romantic longing, lust, greed, etc. pops up, stay with it. Watch the rising thought-feeling energy like a jewel in your hand and see what happens. The list of emotional pitfalls may seem overwhelming, but it’s always coming from the same source, an illusionary feeling of being incomplete. Stay with it for a few seconds and wholeness shines through.

Achieving wholeness is our job. It’s a feeling of standing on two feet without any desire to move into any direction watching the world go by. Theoretically, reaching wholeness may appear impossible to achieve, but practically, it’s not as daunting a job as it appears. That’s because body, mind and world are One. “You” attracted the environment that allows “you” to be whole. There is only one requirement to reach that state and that is to figure out the art of getting the self out of the Way. Every living moment is an invite to feel this wholeness on the inside and to see it manifested in the world that surrounds us.