Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly

We work with uncertainty the same way we work with any kind of groundlessness: by noticing it and inviting it to tea, by staying with it and exploring the feeling in our body with curiosity, by relaxing around the feeling and merging into it.

When we’re frustrated with others, it’s because we see things as a story with ourselves at the center.

When we struggle with loss, it’s because we want reality to be different than it is, more permanent, more like our Mind Movie.

This is the beauty of working with our struggles, rather than avoiding them.

The good news is that we can let go of the struggle, with practice, and relax into the nature of reality in front of us.

This avoidance of groundlessness is what causes the struggle.

One of the most difficult tasks we can give to our Childish Mind is letting go of what it really wants, and accepting life as it is, seeing that it’s already enough.

Today, practice just staying with this feeling of uncertainty, seeing what it’s like to not know the path, know the right way, know the answer.