Fruition, Not Fireworks

When we slow down and let the attention gather, the felt sense becomes a portal to the awakening of an inner harmony.

In other words, when we get simple and basic and mindful with the hands, breath, feet, or the touch points of the body, there is an inner response, and that response is a kind of harmony waking up within us. 

It’s nature becoming more of what it is. It just happens to be in our own bodies.

Mindful awareness and non-doing create an opportunity for this harmony to awaken. We don't do it. What a relief that we don't have to!

So this is not just what meditating is, it’s what pausing is.

Pausing is creating an opportunity for harmony to awaken within and become the thing that’s in charge. Harmony is an ease, a cohesion, a balanced system in which all parts are creating our human being offering in each moment. 

Practice is a ripening or a fruition as opposed to fireworks. It’s not just about making time to meditate. It's making time to notice the ways in which the practice is actually changing us.

We need to track and celebrate all the ways in which things have changed. The tiny ways in which we were a little bit less defended in the conversation.

The moment in which we chose to do the thing that was a lot less easy but a lot more honest.

The sudden and unexpected experience of joy that penetrates the heart as a butterfly dances around the flowers. Life still may be a total mess, but the joy happens. This is fruition and it is the objective of the practice.

=When we notice the ways in which the practice is changing us, and we see the evidence of fruition, we feel more faith. Faith really matters. We become motivated to continue to show up for ourselves and the unfolding of our lives as it is in the here and the now. The fruition is subtle, quiet, yet undeniable.