[meditation bell]
Jon Bernie: I mean, it's unfortunate that we have to
you know, worry about our life or
how we're going to make enough money or
what career we're going to have or
how we're going to take care of our health and deal with our relationships.
It's too bad that we have to deal with all that stuff. Let's all just go and be monks.
Let's go build a monastery somewhere and have little hermitages.
But even in the midst of whatever you have to deal with--
and most of us have to deal with something, more or less, for sure--
--how amazing that you can come here and allow yourself to be cultivated
like a fertile ground and actually have a flowering the space that is free of
all of the problems and all of the unsolved issues, whatever they are.
And I guarantee you it works.
Life is...
unpredictable.
But when you find who you really are, what you really are, then you truly have that refuge,
that sanctuary, as what you are-- available to you every moment
whatever you have to face in your practical life, your relative reality.
In fact, it makes whatever you have to face possible.
It gives you a perspective
that you wouldn't otherwise have.
So rest in that effortless spaciousness
as much as you can,
any moment you are able to, even if it's for little moments here and there.
Whenever that calling calls you.
Whenever the grace bestows itself upon you.
Give yourself to it fully.
Move towards it
with your Big Heart.
It's beautiful, this...
pull of the Big Heart.
It's like a deep wave,
ready to move through every cell in your body.
[sound of ocean wave and meditation bell]