Today, I feel so so… content. Samtosa is the sanskrit term used. Profoundly OK is how I have come to describe this state of being. When I am experiencing it, it all seems so obvious, so simple. How true it is, how everything really is perfectly okay. Even the bad stuff! And when I am not feeling it, it seems that being THIS content will never, ever return again. So, while it is visiting, I might just do a full interview for posterity… What does this contentment feel like? It feels in my body like ease. Acceptance, love. The feeling that “hey man, its all right!” or “I belong here.” The difficulties that normally plague me have taken a back seat to the okayness of everything. “I can handle this” I feel towards my knee and foot pain, “Awww, aren’t you adorable” I feel towards my ample, jiggling belly making its way out from under my shirt. Its not a Pollyanna sort of kindness, or mere tolerance, either. It holds the pain of everything in there, too. Looking at the pain of violence, in all its forms, I am not closed off to it, but rather holding it deeply in my heart. Really seeing it, somehow. That that pain is so great AND ALSO [...]