Never do anything that isn’t play.
At any given moment there are more than enough conditions to feel happiness.
We look for joy in the practice of mindfulness.
It is a wonderful orientation for our practice of awareness: joy.
Personally, I enjoyed the idea that vacation is something that we can find in each moment. I have been aware of this possibility and actively researching it. 🙂 What a gift! We have more than enough. And to see, even, that I have choice – to stay in my habitual worries or suffering or anger – or to see the many conditions that are actually fulfilled in each moment. We need to know how to generate joy in us and to know, even, how to generate joy in every moment.
Having such a capacity of generating joy – and knowing that we have it – enables to face our suffering (and the suffering of others) in a more productive way. Our suffering can be a part of our empowerment. While that may be suprising and unusual to consider as a possibility, it may also be the true and help us to better accept our suffering, to even walk towards it to mine it powers. May it make us more wise and more compassionate.
Claire – a person I find most inspiring – talks about the potential and power in suffering and ill health too. Facing death through an incurable disease from birth has brought her aware of the gift of life in each moment – and how we are escaping from our full potential – for much of the time – by trying to deal with our suffering in unhelpful ways – by avoiding it, by ignoring it, by trying to consume it away and the many more options that we can create to do the opposite of what helps.