What Comes Next

There was a time when I might have gone about and seen things in a different light, manifestations of calculative malice, Machiavellian antics, unreasonable expectations, the toxicity of the small, obsessive needs to overcome personal shortcomings via the process of abusing power, the hand that I'd been dealt, tit-for-tat, you-said-he-said, and so on and so on ad nouseum...

Nowadays, I experience life in a wholly different way and as the Japanese would say, mizo ni nagashite, I set things adrift. By this it is meant that one shouldn't harbor ill feelings or hold on to that that weights you down. In other words it's a small reminder of the importance of detachment.

I meditated long and hard on the situation that lies ahead the night before. It was some time after, perhaps two full rotations of the mala later, that clarity overcame confusion and the answer became clear.

I remembered a Buddhist prayer that goes; "Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may truly be fulfilled."

Today, destiny's red carpet will roll out before me after a much trying lesson in tolerance, patience, and humility.

What lies ahead is nothing other than a push towards a whole new beginning.