“Whatever arises is fresh, the essence of realization…”
(line from Shambhala lineage chant)
I look out over the back yard from
the windows above, and I see space: whiteness expanding our small urban field,
melding into the white and blue garage, and blue sky beyond. It is easier from
this high up to not see where rabbits have run in circles, or shat in the snow
making small minefields, to not to see the still green fallen willow leaves, or
patches where grass bleeds through.
And so, though I don’t mean to back
into a metaphor for looking back at the end of the year, I have. It is easier
now, at the end of December, either see the whole year as clear and white and
clean and destined, or as muck and confusion and mud. The fact is, it was, as is
life, both.
