Resting in the openness of mind.
Sometimes it's called not knowing. Why would we have to know everything all the time? Why do we have to be so knowledgeable, so smart, so in control? We don't! There's no need to figure everything out. We can just be alive. We can breathe in and breathe out and let go and just trust our life, trust our body. Our body and our life know what to do. The problem is to let them do it, to relax and let them guide us.
Of course life is complicated and we have many things to work out.. But also we can find a place of refuge sometimes - in our own life, in our own breath, in our own presence. We don't have to search for a powerful guru or a major meditation center or find the best book or method. We can just return right now to ourselves. To our actual concrete presence, in the body, in the breath, in the mind and heart. If we had the confidence that this were possible at any moment, then we would feel much more at ease with our lives and it would be easier and happier to take care of all our complicated problems. We could do it with far less anxiety and stress. We would trust our life.
The practice of resting in the openness of mind at any time during the day can be quite powerful. "Rest in the openness of mind". Getting used to this phrase and its meaning so that it can be an inspiration for you, so that you can bring it up at any time during the day, is a powerful advantage.
Norman Fischer, Training in Compassion: Zen teachings on the Practice of Lojong
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