Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

by Jack Kornfield

RAIN is a useful acronym for the four key principles of mindful transformation of difficulties. RAIN stands for Recognition, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nonidentification. A

free of identification with changing conditions, liberated from greed and hate, you find it is an open field of knowing, clear, transparent, and free. Pure consciousness is multifaceted, like a mandala or a jewel, a crystal with many sides. Through one facet, the enlightened heart shines as luminous clarity; through another it shines as perfection, or as indescribable peace. It can be experienced as boundless love, vast silence, or infinite compassion. Pure consciousness is all of these qualities: integrity, joy, radiance, bliss. It is timeless, ever present, completely empty, and full of all things. Each

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