STAY HERE - NO MATTER WHAT
While the desire to move away from the moment
When it gets uncomfortable
Is greater than the willingness to stay
No matter what discomfort arises
No matter what existential abyss may open up
No matter what tyranny of past thoughts and emotions comes
There is no abiding transformation
There is a dance of moving towards and moving away
Like the moth around the flame
When the willingness to stay here, no matter what arises,
Is greater than the desire to move away
And that is practiced step upon step, moment upon moment,
As the wave of energy comes and goes,
An abiding transformation reveals itself
At first it may be tender and sensitive
But slowly it becomes established
As a new reality
If there is a choice
It is this choice
To move away
Or to stay.