Hold Lightly

This has been a long season of loss. Within the last three years, I’ve experienced the deaths of my parents, the destruction of our home by fire, and the long illnesses and death of my dear husband Jack. I have such gratitude to Justin and my teachers for the gift of T’ai Chi Chih. It has given me life throughout the turmoil: grounding and calming, allowing better judgement, decision-making, perspective and energy. TCC allows me to feel gratitude and to rest in love.

Justin’s observations speak to me profoundly:

“Live in the present with gratitude.” – Spiritual Odyssey

“Nothing is permanent … change is inevitable.” – Heightened Awareness

“To want what we cannot have, to ask that we sustain what is unsustainable, and to demand that the law of continuous change be somehow annulled is to invite unhappiness.” – Climb the Joyous Mountain

As I was doing the practice one morning just after my husband’s death, I felt the need to pause and write phrases coming into my mind so strongly.

love

enjoy

hold lightly

tightly is pain

the season

passes

yield

no

grasping

hold lightly

each life, each thing

let them go

as they

need

Life surges.

It flows like a tide through the generations.

Once gone, we are husks,

But not debris.

We re-enter the surge.

Our building material

Finds a new repeating pattern

In another creature’s DNA.

Life surges on.