Creating No More Pain in the Present



I followed my intuition today and found myself in a bamboo forest.  I put my hands on the cold bamboo...I felt a self assured energy both from me and from the bamboo itself.  It was beautiful...it felt beautiful.  It's energy told me it is strong - it is free from thought...that it is just being...for the sake of nature..for the beauty of nature...free from judgement or thoughts...i cried...no words could describe what I felt...I just cried.

I looked beyond the bamboo forest and saw three large trees...I looked upward and noticed the branches and leaves hanging way above...creating a canopy for me to sit under...a canopy to invite me in.  The branches and leaves bent and curved and almost created a dome over my head.  I knew I was suppose to be there at that moment.  I looked at the grass and marvelled at the moss that had grown to create a soft blanket for me to sit on as I had forgotten to pack mine. I was drawn to a little patch of sunlight that had shone down from a crack in the canopy above.  The sunlight lit the blanket of moss and invited me to sit and read...

"Create No More Pain in the Present: Nobody's life is entirely free from pain and sorrow.  Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?...The pain you create now is always from some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is."
-Eckhart Tolle