June 22, 2025 – B

If I had everything I needed to live my life as it needs to be lived, I would do it exactly as I am doing it. I have everything I need and this is the life that needs me to live it. And it is going to carry me along the path I need to go to the end that is waiting for me. And I will be there with no regrets that were not absolutely necessary to the way and end that are mine.

What is keeping all of us from being able to say this? This is our life. And it is the way it is because we are the way we are. No? So, what's the problem? Why not love the life we are living? What is preventing us from loving the life we are living? Just as it is? Or, from changing the life we are living into the life we would love to live? This is Amor fati, "The love of fate." The recognition of things just as they are as the outcome of all that has been up to this point, and of the way things will be from this point on.

This is the Buddha's essence as "one thus come." Recognizing and embracing our "is-ness," our "here and now-ness," as our "how it is-ness," and our "this is the way things are-ness." And letting it be because it is, and if it is not the way we want it to be, we only have to "tweak our wants" for everything to fall into place and for us to be fine with the way things are.

Why allow what we want to stand in the way of our embracing how things are? Having what we want is a simple matter of wanting what we have, and adjusting ourselves to the difference in an "adjustment and acquiescence" kind of way.

"Adjustment and acquiescence, Kid. Adjustment and acquiescence."