#basic goodness

"We are all lovable because there is an enduring wholeness in us, our Buddha-nature, a capacity to love that remains uncompromised no matter what has happened to us in life. This basic goodness is the core of our being. It does not have to be conjured by effort but is a grace given to all of us, abiding intrinsically in human nature."

Clicked on the “ask me something” first thing that came to mind was the pure-ness of babies? If that makes sense? ♥️

Yesterday, I brought our pumpkins to the meadow to feed the animals that live there. I’m not very strong these days, so I just put them in the grass along the edge of the path and hoped they would find them.

There are a million things to be insecure about, but wondering whether you are good or good enough should not weigh you down. Job security, financial security, food security, shelter security, relationship security, don’t go away because you have faith that you are a good person. What goes away is the judging and comparing yourself to others, or to idealized versions of yourself. An understanding of your fundamental goodness, helps shut down those arguments in your mind and lets you notice how much you engage in that kind of thinking.

Awakening Fundamental Goodness

You are good; fundamentally, you are healthy. Moreover, that particular health is capable of accommodating your badness as well as your goodness. When you're good, you're not particularly bashful about your goodness, and when you're bad, you're not particularly shocked by that either. These are simply your attributes. When you begin to accept both aspects of your being as energy, as part of the perspective of your view of yourself, then you are connecting with the fundamental goodness, which can accommodate all of these energies as part of one basic being. This is very solid and earthy. It is invincible in fact. That is the basic idea of good: that good can accommodate both wrong and right at the same time. Because of that, it is good. It is solid soil, solid ground.