is a very active process there's nothing passive about it

it's not passive resignation

but it's an active recognition that things are actually the way they are.

sometimes they're not the way we want them to be

so acceptance doesn't mean that we can't work to change the world

to change circumstances of one kind or another

but it means that unless we accept things as they are

we will try to force things to be as they are not

and that can create enormous amount of difficulty

if we recognize the actuality of things

then we have the potential to apply wisdom in that situation

to actually shift our own relationship to what is occurring in ways that might be

profoundly healing and transformative

but without acceptance of one situation then it's very difficult to know where to stand

without knowing where to stand

it's very difficult to take the first step

so some things are very hard to accept

like a when something

when you experience pain for instance in your body and you don't know what it's from

it's very very difficult to accept it

because

first we wanna know what its coming from

and if we don't have any answer for what is causing the pain

and it can be very very difficult to accepted

but we find working with chronic pain patients

is that before you can actually work with pain and suffering

you need to actually put out the welcome mat for it

and accepted as it is, because

whatever has been done medically that could be done, has been done

and you're still living with a certain degree of pain when

people with chronic pain come to our clinic

experiences that there's a lot of different ways to actually work with pain

but the first step

it actually put out the welcome mat for it, it's very hard to do

when you're suffering, but it's actually gateway into freedom from suffering

so that's one of the most powerful ways

in which acceptance can be brought to bear on healing

and transforming one's life is a very very powerful factor

and is a very very powerful attitude in the cultivation of mindfulness

Verbatim :Onishi Keisuke 英文聽打：大西啟介 中譯：牧行者