Meeting Time. . .
There is a moment between seasons when the world seems unable to decide what it wants to be. Morning feels like autumn. Afternoon remembers summer. One day requires a jacket. The next sends it back into the closet.
Life contains these in-between spaces too.
We leave one chapter before understanding the next. A job ends before another begins. Children leave home. Retirement approaches. Relationships change. Our bodies enter unfamiliar territory. We are no longer where we were, yet we have not fully arrived somewhere new.
Buddhist practice offers us equanimity for these moments. Equanimity does not mean becoming emotionally flat or pretending circumstances do not matter. It means developing steadiness amid conditions that continually shift. Instead of demanding certainty, we learn to remain present within uncertainty.
This can be difficult because the mind loves resolution.
We want to know what happens next. But sometimes wisdom means admitting: I don’t know yet.
There can be surprising peace within those words. Not knowing creates space. Space for possibilities we have not imagined. Space for circumstances to unfold. Space for us to respond rather than react. Think about the changing season. Nature does not leap from September into January. The transformation happens gradually, unevenly, day by day.
Perhaps our personal transformations deserve the same patience.
You do not need to have every answer because something in your life is changing. You only need enough awareness for the step you are taking now.
Breathe.
Notice what is happening.
Allow uncertainty to exist without immediately filling it with fear.
The Buddhist path does not promise that life will become predictable. It offers something more useful: the possibility of becoming steadier even when life is not.
There will always be another season approaching. Peace comes not from controlling which season arrives next, but from learning that we can meet it when it comes.
Peace and Love, Jim
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