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What is within you to be seen?

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This week I had an opportunity to see more of myself. Living is like that if we take the time to see, hear, use our senses to be present to what is within us, and how we interact with what is around us. What do you see within yourself? Do you see the good or do you see the not so good? Can you see both?  After a meditation with the People of Color Sangha on Thursday, the dharma talk, as shared by Rev. Liên Shutt, was about the "Enso of Wholeness." The "Enso, a Japanese word meaning 'circular form' and usually translated into English as 'Zen circle,' is the symbol supreme of Buddhist enlightenment"(lionroar.com). Rev. Shutt shared that we often forget that the inside of the circle is just one aspect of the whole that we are not trapped or defined by. In some cases the enso has this slight space where the beginning does not meet the end, in which we can see that we are incomplete and yet complete, inside but also beyond as well.  This week as I was s