Friday, January 8, 2010

Acceptance

Not that I'm awakened in an sense of the word (it takes fearlessness to face those demons of reality), but I'm wondering about how one accepts "what is." It is easy to say, "accept things you cannot change, and change things you can." Harder to do. I wish I was taller, especially when I have to get a ladder to reach a few more inches. So do I accept that I need to get a ladder because (outside of painful surgery) my height is not going to increase? Does accept mean embrace? Fall in love with? Be ok with? Tolerate? Any help?

2 comments:

Trevor said...

Zenkei Roshi once said that it's easy to accept everything; just don't reject anything.

Anonymous said...

You are asking hard questions. H.

Who's in the world?

Xiushan said, "What can you do about the world?" Dizang said, "What do you call the world?"