#95: Skillful Means.

Skillful means. Access to it requires presence and temperance at the very times when they feel most illusive.

At the beginning of a practice of looking for skillful means in our interactions, we may feel that we are allowing disregard for our own needs and desires. That we employ temperance in the service of others but at our own expense.

Then we realize that the presence we bring to situations shifts our orientation to that of an observer. And with the eyes of an observer, we see the suffering in our midst. The troublemakers are troubled.

Suddenly, our skillful means feels like a superpower. A tool to shift dynamics at will.

With practice, a tool for change.