A Zen monk was walking in a forest.
Walking for days and days.
Tired and eventually got to this riverside.
And on the other side of the river he saw one of his masters.
It was a big river.
And so overjoyed and excited to see his master to help show him the way.
He's been walking for days.
He looks across the river and yells,
Hey,
Hey!
Master,
Master!
I've been walking for days and days.
Please,
Please tell me how do I get to the other side?
How do I reach the other side?
The master looks at him,
Cocks his head to the side and smiles.
You're already on the other side.
You're already on the other side.
Today is the best day of your life.
That's where we're going to start from.
Wherever you are,
Wherever you are,
Wherever you are,
Wherever you are,
Wherever you are sitting,
Standing,
Sitting in bed,
Sitting on the floor,
Let your body start to guide you in movement.
Starting to feel the juices moving through your body,
Whether it's just a subtle head roll or the shoulders or the spine.
Start to allow your life force to fill up the vessel that you've chosen for this lifetime,
Whether you know it or not.
Allow your spirit to embody this somebody suit,
The suit that you've been wearing,
This awesome space suit.
Remembering that it's been a gift,
A blessing to be on this earth.
It's like our lifetime on earth is just university,
It's the universe.
And each lifetime that we experience here on earth is like a year of school.
And when we die,
It's actually just summer break.
And we come back for another year.
As your body fully comes to a gentle stop,
Your spinal cord elongates like a column of light plugging into the earth and into the heavens.
Nourishment from below and guidance from above.
Allowing awareness and wisdom to pour in.
It's all there,
It's all right in front of you.
We're going to move through our day today,
But not our to-do list,
We're going to move through a day of expansive emotions and see what that feels like.
So in our minds,
Eye and our imagination from wherever we are,
We can imagine ourselves leaving the house or not.
Passing people on the street and when they make eye contact with us,
There's this luminous energy,
This radiance of life that comes within us and connects within them.
They can't help but smile,
Whoa,
What's going on there?
Something powerful is happening in that human and it's in me too.
Every person you pass by,
Luminous.
You go through your errands for the day,
Laughing,
Smiling,
Curious like a child,
Like the first day of school.
What am I going to learn today?
What's going to happen today?
Like you're watching a movie about yourself.
And as you move through the world,
Maybe you have children,
You pick up your kids,
Or you see your family,
Or you see your friends in the evening,
And they're just happy to see you.
And then you're going to see them again.
And they're just happy to see you.
And even if they're upset,
Even if something happened,
Even if there's something there,
Really underneath it,
They're just happy to see you.
Happy to be upset at you because you're there.
Then when we see through this surface level world,
We can see the deep love that resides beneath.
We come to our closing at the end of the day and back to our bed for another day of school tomorrow.
What am I going to learn?
Every day we'll bring new lessons.
And the more open we are to these lessons,
The more excited we are for these lessons,
The quicker we get to learn them,
The easier they become,
The less challenging.
Look the tiger in the eye today.
The hero's journey is not an easy one,
But it is a powerful one.
Let's take a deep inhale and exhale together.
We can bring our hands to heart center,
Taking a gentle bow for all of our teachers in this universe,
Whether it's the long line that we have to wait in or a relationship that we're in.
You're already on the other side.
Namaste.
