Do you need anything to be different than the way it is?  If you didn’t want anything to be different than the way it is, can you identify a problem?  This moment is complete, whole and there’s nothing missing.  There is absolutely nothing missing in this moment.  Nothing needs to be different than the way it is right now.  When we can deeply embrace this what happens is all our attention and energy is freed and liberated because we no longer give our attention and energy to fixing problems and trying to make things different than the way they are. What would you do with your life’s energy if you no longer needed anything to be different than the way it is right now?

Our minds don’t like discomfort, they don’t like to be uncomfortable.  What happens when any sort of discomfort or uncomfortableness arises in our bodies is our minds make up a story.  And our minds make up a story because they want to distract us from the discomfort.  If our minds can get our attention and engagement in the story, then we don’t have to feel the discomfort that is arising.  And this is where most problems exist, in our minds.

But something profound happens when we are able to make direct contact with exactly what is.