This weekend I did an amazing thing. It may seem REALLY small to you, but to me it was HUGE! I was making the bed, it is a huge king size bed with a ton of quilts on it because it is freezing here. For whatever reason I started to get really angry.
Just flooded with the frustration of the situation that I find myself in.
Well, I named it. I just said out loud Anger. And you know what? It passed. It was a moment that felt amazingly free - although I didn't realize it at the time... only later when I was thinking about the day.
This may not be huge to anyone else, but I am trying my hand at Insight Meditation and reading Jack Kornfield and Pema Chodron. I am sitting each day - and this was the first time in the rest of my life that I just named the emotion as it came up and watched it dissipate. It felt like a small triumph. I know you Zen Masters, you, that I can't get caught up in that. Still - a little happy dance at not being dragged into the emotional swamp.
