In Presence

On reactions, and on a personal note, I recently met a woman who within the last year had experienced a sudden awakening. All her life she had suffered from anxiety, and then one day she didn’t, ever again. Some time after her awakening, her 12 year old daughter commented, “Mom, what happened. You’re so chill.” I take that comment to imply that Mom no longer reacted to the 12 year old daughter’s shenanigans. I asked Mom about meditation. Before her awakening, she didn’t know what meditation was, and still doesn’t meditate now. Rather, she pointed to a wasp and said, “I could watch that for hours.”