' Like It Or Not '...

“In each moment, things simply are as they are, whether “I” like it or not.

That understanding is not something to be “realized” at some imagined future time after sufficient “practice,” but is a simple recognition of the mysterious, ineffable suchness of this moment.

In that recognition, there is no thought of meditation, no practice of meditation, and no meditator or doer of anything else.

The entire experience of being this particular point of view one has learned to call “myself,” feels unchosen, unfathomable, and mysterious to the nth degree. In the face of that, what exactly will you practice?”



― Robert Saltzman, The Ten Thousand Things