In the modern western world of practice, there is a lot of emphasis on bypass behaviors, suggesting that simply chasing the light could be an option. The truth is, that the edge of the shadow defines the light. The shadow always hovers as a reminder to us, to reside in the present moment, to be here now, and to use every challenge that arises in our field as a kind of compost, in the garden of our own becoming, to make for a fertile future, with a quiet mind as big as the sky.
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