The awakening

Written by Theresa Nhật Lai on Monday, January 10, 2022

I'm not sure whether I wanted to stop and stare or run away. Magnificent and terrifying at the same time.

Dolomites, Italy. 2020.

The awakening

Resistance creates suffering.

Accept it, then it can heal.

Gather the strength to show your vulnerability.

Open your heart instead of avoiding it.

Sink into the sea of pain,

Lie down completely inside.

Experience and feel:

You are, and yet you are not – alone.

Take the most unpleasant feeling,

Where it is dark and cool.

Embrace everything, and everything that's attached to it.

Resurface, discover the greatest gift.

Here, in the now,

There is no fear.

With a deep breath

You can get through anything.

Written with a calligraphy brush pen in a hotel room in Engelberg, Sunday, December 6, 2020