自在聆听|晨读原著T108:Slogan: “Always maintain only a joyful mind-Comfortable wi

108 Slogan: “Always maintain only a joyful mind ALWAYS MAINTAIN only a joyful mind” might sound like an impossible aspiration. As one man said to me, “Always is a very long time.” Yet as we train in unblocking our hearts, we’ll find that every moment contains the free-flowing openness and warmth that characterize unlimited joy. This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have. Most of the time we don’t do this. Rather than appreciate where we are, we continually struggle and nurture our dissatisfaction. It’s like trying to get the flowers to grow by pouring cement on the garden. But as we use the bodhichitta practices to train, we may come to the point where we see the magic of the present moment; we may gradually wake up to the truth that we have always been warriors living in a sacred world. This is the ongoing experience of limitless joy. We won’t always experience this, it’s true. But year by year it becomes more and more accessible.