Killinthomas Wood, Ireland

Maybe it's the end of the search for enlightenment.

The end of positive thinking as a substitute for grieving.

The end of using meditation to avoid our anger, non-duality to avoid our wounds, transcendence to avoid our deepest pain.

Maybe what we are truly hungry for is not a higher state of consciousness, but radical permission to be gloriously, heartbreakingly, magnificently human.

To experience fear without calling it failure.

To experience doubt without trying to heal it.

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To feel anger without judging it.

To feel down without labelling it a "low vibration."

To discover that ordinary life, with all its messiness and tenderness, was never standing in the way of awakening.

It was the damn way.

Once in a Blue Moon l AJ Smadi

The true purpose of Zen is,

to see things as they are,

to observe things as they are,

and to let everything go as it goes.

French Cottage Mansion in the Provence Countryside. Inspired by Wes Anderson