Healing prescence in my words

A healing presence is finding the balance between internal and external phenomena, and being aware of how life unfolds around us. It is watering and tending to the seeds of love and compassion.  It is accepting the observations of love and suffering and committing to Large Mind responses.  Tom writes in Dancing with the Ten Thousand Things, "A healing presence learns to transform compassion and good intentions into actions...these students learn not to just insert a needle, they learn to be the needle." This offers a example of healing presence in that we can learn the material and recite the material, but we must be, feel and live the material to be the presence.   Healing presence is also definitive of practice and mindfulness. Through enriching our lives through practice and reflection can we then enrich that of another.