This morning I woke up with the palpable sense of ‘drinking.’ I was aware that I am always drinking things in and that I get to choose what that will be. Will it be critical thoughts? Will it be Nature’s beauty? Will it be sacred teachings? Will it be pure light? I can experience myself as light drinking light, and that is sublime. This is spoken of as the ‘ground luminosity’ in the Tibetan Buddhist teachings.

I found myself looking at the artwork on my calendar as I drank my morning coffee. I was able to focus on the divine details of the work, to drink in these details, while being aware of my breath.

Details often elude me, perhaps because I live in a world of flowing energies. I have wanted to pay better attention to details for a long time (“Caress the divine details.” — Natalie Goldberg, my writing teacher). I was grateful to be able to drink in the divine details with ease.

I have just completed the West direction of the Inka Medicine Wheel training.

http://www.inkamedicinewheel.com/

So much happened for me during these four days and I am still processing. But I know that I have been freed in significant ways. I have “left behind” certain impediments through this training, and I have been able to succeed in areas I have been struggling with for some time. Thank you to the Q’ero lineage and to the teachers who have aligned themselves with it to bring it to me.

Here’s a toast to a day,  a week, a year, and a life– of drinking the sublime through pure light and through the forms that manifest in this world.