Really Wrong

If you are out of agreement with reality, thinking reality should be another way, angry with the state of things, thinking “something is wrong here,” it's very hard to stay out of the story that this fate could have been avoided.

That means you're going to go to blame.

Who is to blame for the wrongness of reality?

How could this fate have been avoided?

You can live many lifetimes in this abstraction, and none of them prepare you to meet and be in reality.

It is actually the fact that you refuse to meet and be in reality that sends you to the abstraction of story and blame.

You say, "this feeling of mine should not be! this experience is unwelcome!" and then you go into a new feeling and new experience (the fight with reality) to get away.

You go into the feeling of frustration and the action of blame.

You go into the experience of suffering from a story, because it's more comfortable than suffering from reality.

Intimacy, on the other hand, is being in love with what is.

Intimacy means agreeing with the here and now, getting along with it, cooperating and collaborating with it.

This moment is not to be squandered on ideas of how it ought to be different.

Here it is!

Feel it now, while there's still time!