In “The Way of Transformation” Zen Master Karlfried von Durkheim describes the soul’s need to seek out the challenge, and to experience this life with clarity of consciousness.

“The man who, being really on the Way,” he writes “and who falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive.

Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a ‘raft’ that leads to the farthest shore.”

Our lives are comprised of moments, my loves. And, only to the extent that we are willing to dare that which is most vulnerable — to continuously expose the ‘frailty’ of our human spirit — may we finally begin to understand the true nature of our practice.

To seek that which may carry us beyond and through, that which we perceive as ‘boundaries of self.’

Only then, may we reach.

And, only then may we grow.

In peace…

Namaste ❤️