Dzigar Kongtrol Rinpoche once said that if someone is to become a true student of Dharma, they must recognize the importance of practice within their everyday living. That is to say, that our own experiences are ‘intimately woven’ into the fabric of another’s humanity.

Can you imagine living each of our moments in just this way? To stand before another being, knowing that we are united in our shared experiences?

Every upset, every loss, every heartache, every pain; each instance of joy and of bliss – my darlings, do you think they’ve been immune from this?

“The ground of practice is your direct experience,” he writes “regardless of its content.”

Indeed, that we might learn to abandon these barriers of heart – in pursuit of a much more meaningful life. To know the joy of an unencumbered breath, through our connection with another human life.

My darlings, this is the very heart of our practice – one which must be carried with us throughout every step along our way.

In peace, love, and equanimity ~ namaste, my dearest friends…