Authentic awakening says “yes” even to the darkness and has the compassion to meet what is truly here without denial or escapism or the attempt to fix it.
The light within you, when resolutely recognized in all circumstances, has the capacity to embrace everything. This uncompromising acceptance is, in fact, your true nature; it is nothing less than the unbounded space of consciousness that is here beneath and beyond the story of who you think you are.
To deeply rest here is a radically new way of being.
To rest here, whether the river flows gently or turbulently, means that something obsolete will die and a radically new way of living will be born.
Hālau 'Aha Hui Lānākila 