How can we fully appreciate the incredible preciousness of our life in whatever moment we find ourselves? Is it possible to live a moment completely, with sensitivity, freshness and care and what does this mean? Do we really want to find out?

Can we learn to listen with alert sensitivity to each arising and passing moment in this incredibly, miraculously, unexplainably and persistently uncertain and unpredictable life we have been gifted? Can we learn to reject none of our moments; embrace them all? What are the consequences of such a way of living? Does it scare you? Seem impossible or absurd and undesirable?

This life is not a rehearsal for something to come. Practice does not mean getting ready for something in the future, it means learning to meet our life as it appears with an ever deepening allowing for it to be just as it is. There can be no peace when the mind is wanting or desiring things to be other than they are. This wanting mind is forever in conflict with itself and there is no end to this self-created suffering.

Can we bring full and complete attention to this wanting activity of the mind? How does it feel in mind and body when we do this? How does this activity of non-judgmental attention impact our ability to be fully alive in the life we have right now? Can we examine and learn to leave alone these desires that seem to drive us unremittingly and mercilessly, seeing really seeing when attachment and wanting come together? What happens when there is total attention to this?

Can we learn to bring this sensitivity of observing without the observer into every aspect of our life; in this room, at home or work in relationship, in conflict and when there is no conflict? Watch your self; watch your children; watch your partner; watch your hand move to pick something up; watch the whole movement of life and living when it is painful and when it is not; watch the joy and the sorrow, the love and the hate, the confusion and the clarity. Do this with real devotion and love and see what happens.

And learn to be simple with it.