If you got dust in your eye you would take it out immediately. You wouldn’t say, “Oh, I’ll get to that later.” “I’m gonna get this thing out of my eye when I get home.” No, you’d get it out now. Right now. You’d stop whatever you were doing to see clearly.
And that’s how we get to treat anything that is keeping us wound up and bound. That’s how we get to treat anything keeping us from liberation. Harmful or negative thoughts, we get to recognize them and care for them immediately - like dust in the eye. Harmful actions, toxic habits, old stories, painful stories, we get to give them our our immediate attention. Like dust in the eye.
And yet, we often walk around with dust in our eye. Either ignoring it, or hoping it it’ll just pass. Maybe telling ourselves that we’ll get to it later. Later may never arrive, and this whole time we couldn’t actually see clearly.
And so, is there any dust sitting in your eye, that deserves your immediate attention? What beauty and medicine and peace have we missed because of dust in our eye?
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