Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Ecstasy of this Moment

Ecstasy is simple, it is when we complicate it by attaching so many expectations and needs on our state that we actually distort the true simple ecstasy that's here now.  Expecting ecstasy is to overlook ecstasy, to wait on it is to postpone its right here right now reality.  Look for nothing to be better, and find that it is better than we could have made it. 
As the 6th Zen patriarch said, The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
If we don't prefer ecstasy over anything else, we experience the ecstasy of this moment.  Ecstasy can even look like pain.  It can look like sadness. It can look like ecstasy.
Life itself is ecstasy.  Not our notion of ecstasy, that's a fantasy.
One cannot find the ecstasy of the present, one can only be it.  Finding would require that you were separate from it, but to be it is the simplest thing we could ever do.


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