Embracing Our Buddha Nature. Embracing our Human Nature

We all have an inner beauty and a big soul that we tend to forget, especially when there is much pain and struggle in our circumstances. Nevertheless, we can recognise this Buddha Nature, through many qualities and insights, for example, our deep longing for freedom and transcendence, our moments of fulfilment, our intuitive wisdom that can just appear when it is needed, our dance with mystery and existential questions, and our deep love and awareness that is primal. The dharma encourages us to keep trusting and embracing this Buddha Nature, yet at the same time allowing and knowing the expressions of our human nature, not as a mistake or a collapse, but as the creative expressions of life and awareness that is born into forms. The forms can include emotions, thoughts, reactions, views and so on, and our task is to recognise and allow them, witness them as they arise and pass as they do with wisdom and inner freedom. Our life can be a journey in which our Buddha Nature and Human Nature, Nirvana and Samsara, are fully embraced, and we dance within both.