If there’s one cloud in the sky, there are not two.

Are you with me?

So there’s only one.

Okay.

Now what can happen is, for instance:

We can dislike the single cloud, and wish it wasn’t here.

But we can also wish it was bigger.

Or smaller.

Or more like a rabbit.

Or more spectacular, maybe a bit more dramatic.

And we could just as well wish there would be more clouds, say three.

Or five.

Or enough clouds to fill up the whole sky, and hide the blueness.

But there’s still only one cloud.

Haha.

Stupid game, right?

You would never do any of these things, right?

Well, you do, obviously.

You actually do it all day long.

It’s called ‘resistance’.

It’s called ‘not accepting what is’.

It’s called ‘being dissatisfied with the status quo’.

And it’s stupid as fuck.

I don’t mean to insult you, but it IS stupid as fuck.

It’s stupid as fuck when you see all the resistance you have in light of the one cloud analogy.

Life is never what it’s not.

One cloud means one.

Five clouds, five.

Circumstances, situations, and events are exactly how they are experienced.

That doesn’t mean the experience is correct and accurate and even true, per se, but it DOES mean that the experience is there.

The single cloud.

Innocently hanging in the sky.

Let’s try and see if we can use it to learn something.

What would happen if we’d be able to recognize the total uselessness of constantly resisting what is?

I’m not asking you to stop all attempts at changing things and just fall on the floor like a ragdoll.

I’m asking you to consider the consequences.

It’s a thought experiment.

It’s not a command, and it’s not even something we can ‘do’.

Accepting what is (because it simply is), is not an activity, not a willful act, not an operation, not something you make happen.

It’s something you see.

One cloud.

Not two.

Let’s just see what happens next, okay?

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