Basic Confidence

Transcript

[0:01] Let's practice.

[0:24] Sitting up with good posture, uplifted, alert, awake. Strong back, open chest, soft front. Coming to practice in this ground of basic goodness, the sense of nothing to hide and nothing to prove, no agenda. Simple, straightforward confidence in our own goodness, our own place in this world. Really seeing that struggle of external validation. Coming down to just the simple fact of our existence here.

[2:20] No more and no less than anything else, anybody else.

[3:00] In this place of confidence, We just sit and breathe. Really, that's it. That's all. Nothing else is needed.

[4:20] As we let our fabrications go, what gets revealed is just the simple clarity. Direct interaction with the world and with other beings. Revealing our basic, innate wisdom. In clarity of love and compassion and kindness. Amen.

[5:41] And so we sit and breathe. And when we notice that we've got caught up, distracted in one of our fabrications, one of our stories, we can just sort of realize, notice that it's not really needed in this moment. When we choose to put our mind to work, we can put our mind to work. Here we choose to let that go, let that be. And come back to this simple, direct clarity, confidence in ourselves, in the world, the ground that holds us. The water, the sun.

[7:23] And the air that moves as we breathe. Amen.

[10:21] The sun and the water feed us. Air brings us life. We have all we need.

[11:10] There is space for us.

[11:40] We can be ourselves.

[13:35] We are in that place of confidence, of basic goodness. As we feel it in our whole body. We can explore this world.

[14:34] We have the insects rushing around. The mist hanging over the mountain valleys. The dew at sunrise. Every little thing is full of wonder.

[16:06] The earth we can smell. It's all around us.

[16:48] To notice what's right here.