The collected and unified mind is already here. It's not anything that we need to go out and find or create—it's part of our nature. So we do our best, with a wholehearted effort, to create the conditions, and then we receive what reality brings to us. When we let go of craving, when we are open to impermanence, when we thin the sense of self—what emerges in that space? What happens? What I notice through direct experience is generosity, kindness, tenderness, care, often an ache in my heart, and an incredible capacity to be with suffering.
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Erin Selover is a Dharma teacher with over 25 years of Buddhist training and co-stewards a meditation community integrating the Celtic Wheel of the Year, Buddhism, gift economics and distributive governance. She is a member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation practice community. She works as a Spiritual Strategist with individuals.