Sealing the Practice
Gratitude is an experience of union. In essence, the experience of gratitude is the uniting with whatever it is you are grateful for. It is quite different from observation or perspective, although it can affect your perspective and influence how much you observe. It is absorption. To bring awareness to all that is calling to us is possible with a gratitude practice. We may have a negative opinion about something, yet when we recognize it as an opportunity, a doorway of sorts, we can enter in and experience gratitude.
Gratitude meditation
We are telling a story on this field of incredible mystery and magic, tragedy, and awe. May it be one of love, compassion, and community. We, as humans, have the choice, the free will, to be creative, nurturing, and to experience love. Let us do just that. A tree knows how to be a tree, an elephant, an elephant and a whale, a whale. There is creative expression in every living thing and yes, everything is living: rocks and rivers, tadpoles and stars. And everything is dying, too. May we hold our own space in the woven fabric of life. May we honor and follow the nature of things, recognizing the essence of Being, Living, and Accepting the passage of time, honoring the end of this mysterious breath that breathes our body. This living and dying is a practice. May it be imbued with qualities such as lovingkindness, generosity, patience, acceptance, inspiration, curiosity, humor, love. May this practice benefit all beings as it continues to nurture your days.
May it be so.