Reality's Reflection

The root of all dissatisfaction results from the denial of a certain inescapable truth : that this moment, right here right now is as good as it gets. In whatever form it appears, no matter how joyful or painful, extraordinary or mundane - this moment is already whole, complete and lacking nothing.

The lack, the dissatisfaction, the anxiety you feel is not an evaluation of reality but rather is a reflection of your own internal discord. It is an indication of how out-of-synch you are with reality. Reality is the flawless mirror which reflects you back to yourself. If you get angry with the mirror,the mirror remains unaffected, it is only your reflection that scowls back at you.

There is nothing dramatic or extraordinary about life. The drama and the extraordinariness is the overlay we ascribe to it. Success, failure, triumph, tragedy, war, peace, oppression, revolt, violence, justice, birth, death are as ordinary an occurence as  the first snow of winter, a bird nesting in its tree, smoke rising from a cigarette and the whistle of an approaching train.

To Life, the mirror, these are all phenomena of equal relevance and profound ordinariness. In recognizing how profoundly ordinary everything is, no matter how small or vast in scope, no matter how mundane or sensational, we come closer and closer to a sense of harmony with reality and a deeper sense of reverence for all that is.