A Fully Human Experience

When you lose interest in spiritual pipe dreams,
your craving for a pain-free life will weaken.
Then you attention will remain where it belongs -
not in some fanciful trouble-free future, but in
this moment, which is the only moment one ever has,
the only moment one must deal with, and
the only moment on actually can deal with.
Seeing that simplifies matters considerably,
I find. The wise among us enjoy and suffer
a fully human experience with an equanimity
that they are powerless to explain,
albeit countless ones have tried.

Robert Saltzman