Blessed life.

I feel my life to be completely blessed and all the difficulties, problems and misunderstandings of my youth and training with my master, were in fact doorways to my awakening.

Delusion always has to be defended, supported and maintained, which is why the world is so aggressive with its belief systems. It needs not to feel alone.

The truth just is, and our Dhamma path is to simply harmonise with this truth. That is why we say that there is nothing to get, only that which we can realise!

The truth is not outside us on an ashram or in a Dhamma hall in an exotic country, it is only the forgotten part of ourselves waiting to be rediscovered.

The sun does not ask our permission to rise in the morning, it just does. The clouds do not ask our permission to rain, they just do, and the heart does not ask our permission to love, for that is all it can do.

But love is rarely what we think it is and until this particular delusion is penetrated and released we will always feel ourselves to be a victim in life, needing someone or something from outside to bring happiness to us.

This is not Dhamma, and when we speak about love we are speaking about the strongest force in the universe. The place where you do not concern yourself with the foolishness of others, but keep always your place of integrity.

To do what you need to do in any moment, and accept the consequence of that.

This is what being committed to Dhamma training really means and why disciples are rare. Even in Dhamma practice people are ready to compromise the training so life is not so difficult. People rarely want the best. People mostly want what's easiest.

However, to give yourself completely to truth is to bring a blessing into your own life and then to the life of all beings.

And so we say,

May all beings be happy and secure may their hearts be wholesome. Whatever living beings there may be, feeble or strong, tall, stout or medium, long, short or small, seen or unseen, those dwelling far or near. Those who are born and those who are to be born, may all beings, without exception, be happy minded.

Understanding these few words from the Buddha is to understand the power and beauty of pure and unconditional love and to see your life as the blessing that it truly is.

May all beings be happy.