The more i consider "the teaching is upside down" as I experience my life, the more I appreciate how I expect and sometimes unknowingly demand that life be right side up, predictable, as I like it etc. The more I come up against this, the more I am finding a way to see life upside down, to not hold expectations so tightly. It's freeing, but I also find that my default is to want it right side up. So it's a work in progress. Getting the question right. Hm. Sometimes even getting the question wrong, but holding the question, opens up new insights and learnings.

What stands out for me in this story is that a jolt of awakening can come in ANY context, at any time, particularly mundane everyday events. And the power to not hold so tightly to our beliefs, but to invite questions and conversation opens the door to untold gifts, shifts and connection.

I like the site MyLifeisG. I like that all the focus is not on the dark side. That is not to say we should ignore or pretend there is no dark side. It seems the starting point. but it isn't all there is and ordinary life is FULL of joyous opportunities as well as opportunities to create suffering. It's almost as if there were an invisible swinging door that we can walk into either through, but we don't realize we have a choice. We are ALWAYS making that choice. And if ordinary life is NOT where joy and awakening are found, where would one find it?