Sundays are very long teaching days. Today I taught 13 students beginning at 9am and finishing at 8pm. There isn't really time to eat a proper meal.
And yet I'm finding them to be very liberating, possibly for the very reason that they are so challenging. At a certain point, there's no use in holding on to an entitlement. Today is not my day, it belongs to others. I've been reading a book on the way of the bodhisattva. It seems that it should be possible to live this way everyday. And yet I find myself constantly clinging selfishly to my wants and needs. I find myself stuck in my fears of what should be, or could be. What gift my students are offering, liberation from myself.
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