Joko Beck says we can “slowly open ourselves to the
wonder of what life is by meticulous attention to the anatomy of the present
moment.”
The point is not that a positive
emotion is better than a negative one, but that ALL thoughts and emotions are
impermanent, or in Buddhist terms, empty. They have no reality whatsoever. Our
only freedom is knowing from years of observation and experiencing that all
personally centered thoughts and emotions and the actions born of them are empty.
… When we realize this, we can abandon them. When we do, very naturally we
enter the space of wonder.
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