Acceptance Is Where We Begin, Un Moment de Méditation: No. 23

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Shannon Ables

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0	Making a pot of tea. The water coming from the tap is just that. It's just water. It's neither tea yet nor any other liquid,
0:24.9	just water. H2O. Similarly, in life, we must see reality for what it is in the moment in order to
0:34.7	turn it into something different, something new or improve upon what is.
0:39.3	But if we misunderstand what is right now, so back to our metaphor of making tea,
0:47.0	coming out of the tap in our kitchen, if we confuse that for anything other than water,
0:51.1	then we will not end up making a pot of tea. By accepting water as what we
0:57.2	begin with, we choose to put it in a kettle and heat it to a boil. We then apply our knowledge of
1:04.8	how to steep tea with the flavor we prefer by adding a tea bag or loose leaf herbs or dried herbs
1:10.0	to the hot water. In a matter of minutes,
1:12.6	we have tea to sip that just moments before was merely water. It's not magic. It's understanding
1:21.2	the process and having the right ingredients, even if the ingredients are new or new to us. And it all begins with accepting
1:31.4	where we are when we begin. When we refuse to see what is, we cause suffering. And this is
1:40.5	entirely avoidable as all suffering is, as opposed to pain, the difference of which we talked about in meditation number 21.
1:51.0	When we reject life as it is, we may think that we are helping ourselves out, but in reality, we are causing suffering.
2:00.0	By accepting what is, what seems at first counterintuitive,
2:04.9	is actually the beginning of the journey to create the change we seek.
2:10.9	Meditation gives us the tool to be able to observe our mind at all times, and in the instances in which we are not accepting reality, we begin to be able to observe our mind at all times. And in the instances in which we are not accepting
2:19.1	reality, we begin to be able to notice these instances too. Simply by noticing when we refuse
2:25.9	to accept anything, we give the mind space to relax. Because we're stepping back and observing
2:34.0	our thoughts, this is how we are able to observe,
2:37.2	oh, I'm not seeing what is because it makes me feel something I don't want to feel, whatever it
2:44.3	might be. With the mind being able to relax simply by noticing, we begin to feel more at ease. Not because we necessarily like what has
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