Tasting Mindfulness: A Poem

Take time out of your day for this mini-retreat:
~ Tasting Mindfulness  ~

Have you ever had the experience of stopping 
so completely, 
of being in your body so completely,
of being in your life so completely, 
that what you knew and what you didn't know,
that what had been and what was yet to come,
and the way things are right now 
no longer held even the slightest hint of anxiety or discord? 

It would be a moment of complete presence, 
beyond striving, 
beyond mere acceptance, 
beyond the desire to escape or fix anything or plunge ahead, 
a moment of pure being, no longer in time,
a moment of pure seeing, pure feeling,
a moment in which life simply is,
and that 'isness' grabs you by all of your senses, 
all your memories, by your very genes, by your loves, 
and welcomes you home

(a poem by Tara Brach)