Our minds are always asking “How can this moment be better?”

What if we tried asking today, “What is already here?” and stop wishing that reality become something else:

A monk asked Yaoshan

What is the essenital truth in all your teaching?

Yaushan replied

Clouds are in the blue sky;

water is in the bottle

Chan master Yaoshan Weiyan , 751–834, found in the Transmission of the Lamp