What Current Are You Riding?

Each of us wakes up today already floating on the current of life. The question isn’t whether we’re moving — it’s which current is carrying us.

Most of the time, it’s a karmic current: the momentum of our thoughts, expectations, and assumptions about who we think we are. That stream pulls us along quietly, steering us this way and that before we even notice.

Practice begins by judging the current. By seeing clearly where it’s taking us. When we do that, we can become skillful oarsmen — using those same thoughts and assumptions consciously, steering the raft toward the actual current of lived experience.

That current is always right here.
Right now.
This very moment.

There is momentum here too. Causes and conditions are constantly presenting themselves as opportunities to respond, to manifest compassion, to turn circumstances, to lessen suffering. But first, we have to notice what weight we’re being carried by.

So before you step out the front door this morning, take a close look at the direction your raft is moving.

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