The Buddha says that the highest reason to give is to adorn the heart, to make the heart and mind beautiful. Can you feel how this relates directly to non-clinging, that the heart free of clinging is a beautiful heart? Letting go—the opening of the hand. What’s most important there is that the contraction of self, the selfing story of “I, me and mine,” in that moment of opening our hand, gets relaxed or at least temporarily challenged.
Susie Harrington
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Susie Harrington is the guiding teacher of Desert Dharma, serving communities in the Southwest near her home in Moab, Utah. Practicing in the Insight tradition since 1989, she trained with Guy Armstrong, Jack Kornfield, and Joseph Goldstein, and completed the SRMC/IMS/IRC Teacher Training in 2016. Susie often teaches outdoors, drawing on nature as a gateway to true nature, and emphasizes mindfulness in speech, daily life, and the body.