Living Daylight, Part 2

For Jamie

We can start the journey to basic trust by investigating our assumptions on what it takes to be okay. Maybe I believe that I need a certain relationship or to be in a certain place. But then again, is it really true? Did someone tell me? Did I tell myself, in the aftermath of something that went wrong? Does it still hold? 

Maybe I can experiment a little and let myself be surprised. Surprised by my own strength and resilience. Surprised by the support of the people around me. Maybe I can go for a walk and let nature be my support.

There is a relationship between basic trust and support. I can learn to receive the daylight’s deeper sense of holding by resting in my body, in the here and now. I can lean into the solidity, and within it I can find its whiteness turn bright, soft. I let it become a mist of infinite gentleness. A gentle soothing rain that washes away our sense of separateness and duality.

Sometimes I think of the rain as the tears of white Tara. Crystal tears, made of light, as Tara rushes to meet us and through her tears transmutes our suffering into a sense of unconditional holding. 

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