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Being
present
to
the
way
things
are
is
not
the
same
as
accepting
things
as
they
are
in
the
resigned
way
of
the
cow.It
doesn’t
mean
you
should
drown
out
your
negative
feelings
or
pretend
you
like
what
you
really
can’t
stand.Say,
for
instance,
you
are
on
your
annual
winter
vacation
in
Florida,
and
rain
is
pouring
down
steadily.Surely
you
won’t
like
it.You
came
here
expecting
sun
and
warmth,
rounds
of
golf,
and
lots
of
time
on
the
beach.The
question
is,
can
you
be
with
the
whole
thing,
the
rain
and
your
feelings
about
the
rain?If
you
cannot,
you
might
spend
entire
days
bracing
against
the
truth,
complaining
how
unfair
it
is,
how
nobody
warned
you
about
the
weather
patterns,
how
the
hotel
ought
to
refund
your
money
because
the
brochure
showed
sunny
skies,
how
wrong
your
spouse
was
not
to
take
your
advice
to
go
to
the
resort
in
Tucson.You
might
find
yourself
railing
at
the
heavens,
asking
why
you,
personally,
are
being
punished.You
would
be
stuck—and
unable
to
go
on
from
there.If
we
wanted
rain
at
this
time
of
year,
we
would
have
visited
our
friends
in
Seattle.Indeed,
the
capacity
to
be
present
to
everything
that
is
happening,
without
resistance,
creates
possibility.At
last
you
can
see.You
can
leave
behind
the
struggle
to
come
to
terms
with
what
is
in
front
of
you,
and
move
on.On
my
first
run
down
the
mountain,
I
slipped
and
fell
on
a
patch
of
ice.From
then
on
I
became
vigilant,
tensing
up
in
resistance
whenever
I
spotted
ice,
and,
unfortunately,
there
was
plenty
of
it.I
was
about
to
abandon
the
project
and
come
back
some
other
time
when
real
skiing
was
to
be
had,
when
suddenly
it
occurred
to
me
that
I
had
been
operating
under
the
assumption
that
real
skiing
is
skiing
on
snow.I
laughed
with
what
Ben
often
refers
to
as
cosmic
laughter,
the
laughter
that
comes
from
the
surprise
and
delight
of
seeing
the
obvious.If
I
was
going
to
be
a
New
England
skier,
I
had
better
include
ice
in
my
definition
of
skiing!I
redrew
the
box
in
my
mind,
so
that
now
I
had
it
that
skiing
is
skiing
on
snow
and
ice.As
I
started
down
the
next
run,
my
physical
self
coordinated
easily
with
my
new
way
of
thinking.As
every
skier
knows,
resistance
to
ice
can
take
you
on
quite
a
painful
downward
slide,
whereas
traversing
ice
as
though
it
is
a
friendly
surface
will
usually
deliver
you
gracefully
to
the
other
side.If
we
resist
them,
we
may
keep
on
slipping
into
a
posture
of
defeat.If
we
include
mistakes
in
our
definition
of
performance,
we
are
likely
to
glide
through
them
and
appreciate
the
beauty
of
the
longer
run.I’ll
never
forget
my
surprise
when
the
first
horn
player
of
the
Boston
Philharmonic
came
to
me
after
a
performance
of
one
of
the
most
taxing
of
Mahler’s
symphonies
in
which
he
had
played
a
magnificent
rendition
of
the
incredibly
demanding
solo
horn
part.I’m
so
sorry,
he
said.For
a
moment
I
couldn’t
imagine
what
he
was
talking
about.I
was
struck
that
his
whole
appearance
seemed
dejected
and
apologetic.Finally
I
registered
that
what
had
caused
his
deflation
was
the
fact
that
he
had
flubbed
two
admittedly
very
exposed
high
notes
in
the
course
of
one
of
his
big
solo
passages.Perhaps
his
mistake
might
have
seemed
an
irritant
to
some
in
a
recording
heard
over
and
over
again,
but
in
the
context
of
an
impassioned
performance
lasting
nearly
ninety
minutes,
it
was
hardly
significant.The
level
of
playing
of
the
average
orchestral
player
is
much
higher
than
it
used
to
be
in
Mahler’s
day.For
the
orchestra
and
the
conductor,
playing
Mahler’s
symphonies
means
taking
huge
risks
with
ensemble,
expression,
and
technique.We
will
not
convey
the
sense
of
the
music
if
we
are
in
perfect
technical
control,
so
in
a
sense
a
very
good
player
has
to
try
harder
in
these
passages
than
someone
for
whom
they
would
be
a
strain,
technically.Stravinsky,
a
composer
whom
we
tend
to
think
of
as
rather
objective
and
cool,
once
turned
down
a
bassoon
player
because
he
was
too
good
to
render
the
perilous
opening
to
The
Rite
of
Spring.A
bassoon
player
for
whom
it
was
easy
would
miss
the
expressive
point.I
don’t
want
the
sound
of
someone
playing
this
passage,
I
want
the
sound
of
someone
trying
to
play
it!This
attitude
is
difficult
to
maintain
in
our
competitive
culture
where
so
much
attention
is
given
to
mistakes
and
criticism
that
the
voice
of
the
soul
is
literally
interrupted.The
risk
the
music
invites
us
to
take
becomes
a
joyous
adventure
only
when
we
stretch
beyond
our
known
capacities,
while
gladly
affirming
that
we
may
fail.And
if
we
make
a
mistake,
we
can
mentally
raise
our
arms
and
say,
How
fascinating!
and
reroute
our
attention
to
the
higher
purpose
at
hand.These
are
not
easy
distinctions
to
make
considering
the
ongoing
inventive
power
of
perception.The
following
are
applications
of
the
practice
in
some
contexts
where
we
may
have
difficulty
distinguishing
our
thoughts
and
feelings
about
events
from
the
events
themselves.Being
with
the
Way
Things
Are
by
Clearing
ShouldsWhen
we
dislike
a
situation,
we
tend
to
put
all
our
attention
on
how
things
should
be
rather
than
how
they
are.The
stakes
really
go
up
when
the
issue
is
not
rain
or
a
child’s
whine,
but
hunger,
tyranny,
or
global
warming.When
our
attention
is
primarily
directed
to
how
wrong
things
are,
we
lose
our
power
to
act
effectively.We
may
have
difficulty
understanding
the
total
context,
discussing
what
to
do
next,
or
overlooking
the
people
who
should
not
have
done
what
they
did
as
we
think
about
a
solution.Escape,
Denial,
and
BlameSome
feelings
are
just
plain
unpleasant,
like
being
too
cold
or
having
a
stomachache.Others,
like
grief
or
anguish
or
rage,
seem
so
intense
they
threaten
to
overwhelm
us,
and
we
look
for
an
exit.We
resist
the
feelings,
or
turn
our
backs
on
the
situation,
or
foist
the
blame
and
the
responsibility
onto
others.Closing
the
exits
means
staying
with
the
feelings,
whatever
they
are.It
means
letting
them
run
their
course,
as
a
storm
sweeps
overhead
showering
rain
and
thunder,
only
to
be
followed
by
clear
patches
of
blue.Sometimes
the
capacity
to
be
present
without
resistance
eludes
even
the
most
loving
parents
when
their
children
are
troubled.They
may
not
be
able
to
bear
their
children’s
pain,
stand
close
enough
to
comfort
them,
or
even
listen
to
their
words.But
feelings
can
be
likened
to
muscles—the
more
intensively
you
stay
with
the
exercise,
closing
the
door
on
escape,
the
more
emotional
heavy
lifting
you
can
do.Then
you
become
that
much
more
of
a
player
in
your
field
of
endeavor.Being
with
the
Way
Things
Are
by
Clearing
JudgmentsThe
rain
in
Florida
may
be
bad
for
us
and
good
for
the
citrus
crop.A
canceled
flight
may
wreck
our
schedule
and
bring
us
face
to
face
with
our
future
spouse
in
the
airport
lounge.A
forest
fire
may
seem
to
destroy
an
ecosystem
in
the
short
term,
yet
renew
it
with
vigor
for
the
long
term.When
a
splendid
osprey
eats
a
beautiful
fish,
it
is
neither
good
nor
bad.Or,
it’s
good
for
the
osprey
and
bad
for
the
fish.Nature
makes
no
judgment.And
while
our
willingness
to
distinguish
good
and
evil
may
be
one
of
our
most
enhancing
attributes,
it
is
important
to
realize
that
good
and
bad
are
categories
we
impose
on
the
world—they
are
not
of
the
world
itself.A
young
man
goes
to
see
his
rabbi.But
Rabbi,
how
do
you
actually
know
which
is
the
good
news
and
which
is
the
bad
news?
The
rabbi
smiles.You
are
wise,
my
son.So
just
to
be
on
the
safe
side,
always
thank
the
Lord.Being
with
the
Way
Things
Are
by
DistinguishingPhysical
from
Conceptual
RealityAmong
all
the
complexities
that
keep
us
from
being
present
to
things
the
way
they
are,
one
of
the
most
potent
is
the
confusion
between
physical
reality
and
abstractions—creations
of
the
mind
and
tongue.Language
is
replete
with
a
variety
of
things
that
have
no
existence
in
time
and
space
but
seem
as
real
to
us
as
anything
we
own—justice,
for
instance,
or
aesthetics,
or
zero.
Using
these
concepts,
we
can
accomplish
what
we
could
not
otherwise.They
are
tools
that
allow
us
to
count,
to
learn
from
others,
to
establish
guidelines
for
behavior.They
permit
us
to
traffic
with
the
future
and
the
past.It
is
important
to
keep
in
mind,
however,
that
these
things
refer
only
indirectly
to
phenomena
in
the
world.What
they
point
to
is
not
made
up
of
matter.These
abstractions
are
purely
inventions
of
language.The
nature
of
abstractions
is
that
they
have
a
lasting
existence
exempt
from
the
contingencies
of
time
and
place.An
abstraction,
such
as
destiny,
that
is
thought
up
in
a
moment
of
resistance
to
passing
conditions
has
the
power
to
narrow
down
our
lives.Two
stormy
Florida
vacations
can
easily
be
turned
into
a
permanent
cloud
of
bad
karma
that
follows
one
whenever
fun
is
in
the
offing,
putting
a
damper
on
the
brightest
day.So
this
part
of
the
practice
of
being
with
the
way
things
are
is
to
separate
our
conclusions
about
events
from
our
description
of
the
events
themselves,
until
possibility
opens
up.Stress
in
their
household
had
risen
to
such
a
level
that
the
normally
reticent
young
man
had
actually
suggested
therapy
for
himself
and
his
parents.The
father
had
then
obtained
the
referral
from
his
medical
doctor.Both
parents
turned
toward
their
son
and
waited.The
boy
said
nothing.Now,
this
is
such
a
common
way
of
speaking
that
its
inventive
power
can
easily
pass
us
by
unnoticed.The
father
spoke
about
a
barrier
to
communication
that
he
said
the
boy
had
created,
but
of
course
it
only
appeared
when
the
father
called
it
up.By
the
alchemy
of
language,
the
four
people
in
the
room
were
instantly
transfigured
into
four
people
and
a
wall.The
more
the
father
described
it,
the
more
the
wall
increased
in
density,
and
the
more
invisible
the
boy
grew
behind
it.Taking
the
boy’s
silence
as
further
evidence
of
the
barrier,
the
father
seemed
unaware
that
he
hadn’t
made
any
request
of
his
son
or
addressed
him
at
all.Are
you
willing
to
pretend
that
there
is
a
wall
between
us?
the
father
asks,
and,
if
the
boy
agrees,
they
dismantle
the
wall
in
play,
where
it
belongs.Perhaps
the
young
man
suggests
another
metaphor,
that
he
feels
invisible
to
his
parents.Imagine
that
the
father
begins
a
conversation
with,
Son,
you’re
the
best
thing
that
ever
happened
to
me,
or
Son,
what
about
this
whole
situation
makes
you
the
most
angry?
or
Son,
I’m
about
to
tell
you
something
I’ve
never
told
anyone
before.
The
boy
looks
up
at
his
father,
and
they
have
taken
their
first
steps
on
a
journey
of
possibility.Abstractions
that
we
unwittingly
treat
as
physical
reality
tend
to
block
us
from
seeing
the
way
things
are,
and
therefore
reduce
our
power
to
accomplish
what
we
say
we
want.When
we
are
our
calculating
selves,
we
struggle
onward
and
upward
like
contestants
in
an
obstacle
course,
riveting
our
attention
on
the
barriers
we
see
in
our
way.