Befriending

I read this today:

Befriend Who You Are
Lovingkindness—maitri—toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
-Pema Chodron, "We Can Still Be Crazy" (Winter 2002)

I like this very much. I think back to the people in my life who have befriended me. I think about the few others that I have befriended. Perhaps by befriending the Self the very nature of friendship itself changes.

May all be filled with loving kindness
May all be well
May all be peaceful and at ease
May all be happy

May I be loving May I be well May I be peace filled May I be happy


Accept Release Accept Release Accept Release

My practice is simple and i am grateful for that.