【Perpetually captivated】 #2026

When sadness arrives

If you can approach it with kindness, human connection, curiosity...

Open space to explore

What does sadness want you to listen to?

What does it want to express to you?

What can you learn from it?

When you approach and touch sadness with such kindness, I believe sadness is no longer the same as before...

What will it be then?

I don't know

But I'm glad you've embarked on this journey of exploration

The river of life flows through everyone

In the river, there is sadness, frustration, fear, helplessness...

It flows through everyone

The key is how you approach it with human kindness

And how you encounter these instinctual, animalistic energies

That hasn't been tamed by civilization

This is our most important practice

Children greatly need the authority of their parents

Parents, with a connection of integrity and love

Say to the child

No, stop, you can't.

This kind of authority, with integrity and a loving connection

Is crucial for children.

Why?

Because it tells me where it is safe

Where it is unsafe

I know where I can freely do what I can do

Which makes me feel safe

And I also sense that my parents have genuine power

Not a crumbling "violence."

Instead of asking, "How can I be myself?"

Ask, "Which part of you do I want to become a part of myself?"

Maybe it's your gender

Maybe it's your sadness

Maybe it's your anger

Maybe it's your heritage

Maybe it's a younger version of yourself

Maybe it's the version of yourself that is thousands of years old...

Whichever part wants to join the wholeness of my life

Welcome, welcome, welcome...

The mind is always worried about losing something

But your body, your soul

Never lose

They encompass the entirety

This world needs me

There is a place for me in this world

My inner wisdom, my spirituality

Were prepared for me

Before I came into this world

Prepared for me to bloom my gifts in this world

Now, I unleash the seed of this spirituality

To bloom in this world

World, here I come