If each of us created a list of everything we have to be grateful for, how long would it be? One page or two? Three pages or five? What would it contain and how far would we go to openly recognize the things we have to be grateful for? How we answer this question points us to a really important teaching that isn’t always as obvious to us until after we’ve taken the time to really sit with how we’ve answered this for ourselves.
We are often grateful for many things including our homes, friends, family, jobs, but how often do we point this attention inwards and express gratitude for our hands, our eyes, our legs, our ability to hear and so on? How often are we thankful for the trees, the sun, the stars, the moon? One really integral part of expressing gratitude has to do with the type of attention and presence we embody while answering this question for ourselves.
The buddhists often embody gratitude as one of the most sacred and central practices to the dharma. Gratitude is actively used alongside meditation to help them maintain a sense of integration and grounding in each present moment. It allows them to remember how truly connected they really are to nature and all the life surrounding them. In the same way, when we practice gratitude for even the little things, somehow, the seemingly problematic stresses and anxieties in our lives tend to lose their grip on us. Gratitude teaches us how to truly appreciate all of the beautiful mysteries in life, including one we are so intimately connected to; our humanness and our divinity. In this episode we discuss the power of gratitude and what it means to be grateful for life.
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