Everything Is Fully Received
Todo Es Plenamente Recibido
A gentle invitation to notice that everything you experience — every sound, sensation, and struggle — is already fully welcomed by your open nature.
Everything Is Fully Received
Don't try to do anything.
Just notice what's happening.
For example, you can notice that you're trying to do something,
but then don't try to stop that,
just notice it.
Just as you notice sounds,
sensations happen,
thoughts are happening.
You are there before, during, and after
When you hear a sound,
usually you don't have the sensation or experience that you are that sound.
You're there before the sound,
you're there during the sound,
and you're there after the sound.
Any direct experience of the body is the same.
Sensations in the hands,
you're there before the sensation, during the sensation, and after.
The difference between sounds and body sensations is that sense of mine.
The sound happening, not me, out there.
Sensation in the hands happening, my hand, my sensation.
Where does mine end?
Look at where you're touching the chair or the couch.
Where does the sensation of my skin, my body end?
And where does that which is chair and couch begin?
Be curious about this distinction.
What is mine?
What is not?
Where does that come from?
Is it fundamental to reality, or is it a thought?
What if everything we experience is a part of us,
not just sensations of our skin,
but also every sound,
everything we see,
every person we come in contact with?
What if a blurred sense of no boundary between our body and our chair is extended?
If we see there is no clear line
between what we call mine and not mine,
why not live and experience according to that?
Heart and mind lead to the same place
This is where the correct use of the mind and the heart lead to the same place.
The heart is calling to love everything as my own self.
The right use of the mind shows everything is a part of me.
We love the illusion of being small and limited.
Yet over time we can get tired of the sense of contraction.
That sense of I, of being, is love itself.
The struggle is that its nature is infinite,
and we want it to be limited so that we can own it.
What would change in you, in your life,
if you recognized you love everything that is happening?
You could know so profoundly, without any reason,
that there's nothing better than this.
Not because good things aren't coming,
but because this is so exquisite, so radiant.
Every part of you is so fully satisfied.
And you're so open that that which you are
is empty, welcoming, receiving,
being filled by everything as it is.
Everything is fully received
If you look closely, that's exactly what is happening.
A sound happens, it is fully received.
Sensations happen, they are fully received.
Emotions happen, they are fully received.
Thoughts happen, they are fully received.
Our empty nature is a welcoming, infinite openness.
Struggle and resistance happen, they are fully received.
And pain happens, it is fully received, welcome.
But this empty, open nature is vast.
It's so intimate.
You cannot attain it.
You cannot lose it.
It is reality, always.
We just often prefer the illusion that something is not welcome.
But even that, the illusion of something not being okay,
not being welcome, not being received,
even that is fully, fully received.
It is appearing fully as it is.
The illusion, the resistance, the struggle
appearing in all its splendor, all its radiance,
by the open nature, or emptiness,
loving, welcoming.
There is nothing you can find, nothing you can imagine,
think of, experience, feel
that is not fully welcome.
It is the nature of our reality,
the nature of our empty being.
It is that I am infinitely receptive.
And noticing this, realizing this more and more,
this true nature will leave the background and become the foreground.
It is always this.
Clarifying who is struggling
So if you experience any discomfort or struggle,
just clarify:
is it I who is struggling,
or is it I who is open, receptive, welcoming
of that part of me which right now I call struggle?
Seeing this cannot be unseen,
just like a rug being pulled from under our feet.
We avoid it, as there is no way back.
We can no longer look for salvation somewhere else.
It is full responsibility.
We can no longer place it in future experiences, and partners, and gurus, and teachers.
Once that curtain falls,
we see the workings of that trick we've been playing.
This responsibility isn't heavy.
It is free, joyous, flowing.
It is just the responsibility of listening so deeply
that the right movement, the right action
flows through you effortlessly.
And everything takes care of itself,
as a river flowing to the ocean.