We’ve established that if we want to be free we will pursue “lit up.” Service lights me up. I was looking at that and had this insight: We are always participating in something. For most humans the vast majority of participation happens with egocentricity. We participate in its illusory world and we suffer.
In service we participate with Life. For me, there is a heart-opening experience of seeing the greater whole, the place where entertaining conditioning’s cruel, petty, I-centered world becomes absurd in the face of the joy, the pain, and the goodness of life.
We took this photo of Felistus on our last trip to Zambia; it is the desktop on my computer. I cannot look at it and not smile—can’t be done! And when I remember that she is one of the 800 precious beings who are coming to eat, play and be a part of Living Compassion in Kantolomba every day, I am deeply grateful to be participating. Her smile lights me up; she is of great service to me.
Gasshō,
Jen
