Light And Dark

Light and dark,

Pleasure and pain,

And joy and suffering

can all exist within me 

at the same time.

My task is to learn to adeptly hold space 

for the various shades 

of my experience equally,

without too much attachment 

to what I do like

or too much aversion for 

What I don’t like.

Letting life be, just as it is.

Letting myself be just as I am,

and allowing each sensation 

to arise and move through me

just as it needs to

in each moment.

Light and dark,

Pleasure and pain,

And joy and suffering

Can all exist within me

At the same time.