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For the part of you that has been so busy doing that it forgot how to simply be.
Joy, in the Buddhist tradition, is called mudita – sympathetic joy. The genuine capacity to delight in the happiness of others, and to locate within yourself the aliveness that was present before life layered so much over it. It’s not the fleeting pleasure of things going well. It’s something more fundamental and more durable than that.
This practice is an invitation to remember. To find beneath the efficiency, the responsibility and the getting things done, the childlike wonder and awe that your adult self quietly moved to the backseat.
It’s still there. It has only been waiting.
For the part of you that has been so busy doing that it forgot how to simply be.
Joy, in the Buddhist tradition, is called mudita – sympathetic joy. The genuine capacity to delight in the happiness of others, and to locate within yourself the aliveness that was present before life layered so much over it. It’s not the fleeting pleasure of things going well. It’s something more fundamental and more durable than that.
This practice is an invitation to remember. To find beneath the efficiency, the responsibility and the getting things done, the childlike wonder and awe that your adult self quietly moved to the backseat.
It’s still there. It has only been waiting.