On creating a container

Upon setting out, we tend to hold an idea in our minds... an idea about what it might be like; an expectation. And rarely do our expectations hold true in all layers of the experience.
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We remain open to seeing, feeling, experiencing the world as it comes. Or if we are not open, we dance with resistance.
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On this particular full moon morning, I set out with my team to climb Kulshan. The forecast read "Clear, sunny skies." As we set out onto the glacier, the full moon blasted us, casting moon shadows across the barren white snow. After about one hour of walking in the cold, clear, night, a hazy storm rolled in bringing wind, snow, and no visibility. We walked for several hours this way... wading through the knee deep snow, deeper, upward, onwards into the white oblivion.
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As we neared the crater rim, the sun shone through and the clouds drifted down into the surrounding valleys. The clear skies pulled through afterall, affording a glorious sunkissed summit celebration. We paid our respects to the mountain for safe passage and turned our way homewards.
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I launch Grounding Truth as a container to hold the uncertainty that exists in our knowing, and to offer a space to seek what is real.
What is the 'nowcast' of your journey? your emotions? your physical state? Can we learn to put aside the expectations and give ourselves to what arises in pure presence?
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I wonder... And so, here is my response:
An experiment. An attempt to live closer to the heart of the world, to the lifeblood of what is real and true.
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In offering this container for going deeper than the surface of things, I am tasked with defining 'what' it is. ...However, I believe there is more power in the 'how' than the 'what.'
My wholehearted response to showing up in this new space, is to offer my 'how' and allow the 'what' to be co-created.

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