YOU ARE FREEDOM ITSELF

Zen Wisdom for Your Everyday Life

On Independence Day, a celebration of freedom, it is crucial to see that we are all intrinsically free. We are alive, awake, breathing. We come to this life with all we need to sing, love, give, thrive in everyway. And yet we suffer greatly, ruled by the idea that we are bound, enslaved, harmed and victimized wherever we go. We believe that we must go through life suffering, rejecting one another, and rejectng our own freedom. However, Zen practice, shows us that it is not so. Each moment of life, is a celebration of freedom itself. It is only necessary to stop running, and pay attention to simple moments, to our breath, the feel of our feet on the floor when walking, the sound of the rain. As we become radically present for what's happening, experience our life fully we take our attention away what's truly binding us, our own negativity. Then it's easy to see that freedom is right within. We have the power to reclaim our joy in life, our strength and gidance through the simple moments as they come and go. Nothing is binding us. What a thrill to stop and see.