The-Midst.com (Essay)

The-Midst.com, Sept. 28, 2019

”I didn’t cry during the process of leaving home, not even while saying goodbye to beloved family and friends. The closest thing I have to a spiritual teacher is Buddhist psychologist Tara Brach, and her word for this state is disembodied, when we leave our bodies and “skim life’s surface in a mental trance.” In a recent dharma talk, she noted, “Everything we most value in our lives (love, creativity, wisdom, feeling vibrant) is only available if we’re awake in our body. The poet Bokonon says, ‘Life is a garden not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate, wandering. Where we go matters less than what we notice.’”