A Meditation For The Cure For Hot And Cold

There’s a way of relating to discomfort with ease. Not with resignation, not with resentment, not with anything other than a relaxed mind and body.

When we can do that… we’ll still have hot and cold. What we won’t have is the frustration of not being able to change it. It might sound paltry or it might even sound sneaky, but it’s been a game-changer for me.

Transcript

So finding the posture that best supports you today, In this moment, Settling in as best you can, As well as being settled, Is available to you right now. Taking a few intentional breaths to encourage, To encourage settling, Feeling the body sitting or standing or lying down, Or for those of you on the phone, Maybe feeling the body driving, Whatever is happening for you in the moment, Attending to it, And then beginning to turn the attention on purpose to whatever is here for you in the present moment, Hot or cold, Good or bad, Difficult or easy, The inherent wonder and surprise of each moment. And maybe you can notice as the moments arise that pass away, Different they are, Noticing how some are pleasant and some are not. But whatever is happening, Whatever you're noticing, The invitation is to turn towards it and to turn towards it with, With kindness, With benevolence, Even with amusement. This is what's happening right now. And now this, Maybe with the inquiry of how can I develop more of a commitment to turning towards more of a practice of turning towards more of a resilience to turning, Not to turning towards, But a resilience when I turn toward and all of that with a lot of love for myself and self compassion. This inquiry we can invite ourselves into the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment, Each moment, Not being easy, But can we be easeful in our relationship to it? The end of grasping, The end of clinging, The end of suffering, Like a light that we can invite to diffuse our whole being when we remember what Pema calls the openness of our being. And really, The invitation is to take it with us off the cushion, Back to our office and our family and our home and all the things happening in the world, The season and the parties and the holidays, The openness of our being.