My son said to me about Christmas Eve, “It’s just another day.” And at first I did not see the wisdom of  his words. No expectations that it must be “done right.”

Leap into the reality of your own helplessness.

That is a Buddhist teaching, resting in nothingness.

Become a zero, not a hero.

Do not rise up, fall down deeper and deeper and deeper.

Ignore the world that you have created out of your ego. It hurts like hell to live there.

What’s next?

Falling into the grace of helplessness.As Gurdjieff said: “Man cannot do.”

That is the beginning of wisdom.

Vicki Woodyard