Innocent and Powerful

Whatever else "liberation" is, surely it is the freedom from needing to be "right." We gain abundant energy when freed from the compulsion to defend a point of view. The self-luminous blue sky of the heart is never "right" or "wrong," and has no viewpoint. That pointlessness is ananda.

As pure consciousness, the sky of the heart pervades every point and particle in the universe. When we act in the world from this pointless, omnipresent unbounded field of simple awareness, rather than from a "right" belief, weperform a thousand momentary acts of kindness without accumulating any merit whatsoever, thank god, and without any repository called "me." We are not only more happy, but our actions are more innocent and powerful.

I learned this from a peony in my back yard.