Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

by Tara Brach

by agreeing to what is here, we offer it the space to express and move through us.

But during Ed’s early days as a cook at the Tassajara mountain retreat center, he had a problem. No matter what recipes or variations in ingredients he tried, he couldn’t get his biscuits to come out right. His unreachable standard, as he discovered, was set years earlier—growing up he had “made” and loved Pillsbury biscuits.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

Are you in your belly, or do you just know vaguely that you have a belly? Or is it just for food?