Are you stuck in a box?
Labels can put us in a confined space where we can't see other perspectives.I am anxious you might say. The anxiety box. I am not confident you might say. The not confident box. I am hating my life. The hating my life box. I am fed up with this cold weather. The fed up with the cold weather box. I am a victim! The victim box.
Only, there are no boxes. There's a vast landscape of comings and goings, of impermanent phenomena that arrives for a little while, then moves on.
Your breath informs you of this. No sooner is there an inhale, there's an exhale. Movement.
Water flows. It does not stay still for very long. Sometimes it becomes ice, or vapour. It's always moving, always transforming.
We are the same. We transform, moment by moment by moment.
So, to label yourself in a box as "something" is not permanent - it's a mere transition. You might be anxious now, but it will pass. You might be unhappy now, but it will pass.
Being present, you go with the flow. You allow whatever comes to come. You also let it go over the horizon. We don't cling to anything.
What exists is THIS. Exactly THIS. Now.
Can you be with NOW? Everything that you are, without a box? Without judgment?
If you can enter acceptance of NOW, you are free. You are not in a box now, nor ever. You are part of the cosmic all, flowing, an aspect of the universe, forever changing, forever transforming.
