Sunday in the insight meditation practice group facilitated by my friends, Kay and Phil Davidson, Kay read a passage from Mark Nepo’s  THE BOOK OF AWAKENING  in which he says that each of us is born with an unencumbered spot of grace which, in the normal course of things, gets tarnished or covered over.  Occasionally the covering gets worn through and we and others get a glimpse of “that uncorruptible spot of grace at our core.” He goes on to say,”When the covering is worn through, we have moments of enlightenment, moments of wholeness, moments of satori…moments of clear living when inner meets outer, moments of full integrity of being, moments of complete Oneness. And whether the film is a veil of culture, of memory, of mental or religious training, of trauma or sophistication, the removal of that film is the goal of all therapy and education.”

Recently I was fortunate to be in the presence of that unencumbered spot of grace as I witnessed an exchange between two of my granddaughters which I wrote about in my January 31 posting, “Two Poems, One Heart”.   Mark Nepo gave words to what I saw embodied for a moment by these two young girls and reminded me that each of us, at our core, has that same unencumbered, uncorruptible spot of grace. In that moment I was given a tangible experience of what is meant by “namaste”  when “the divine in me bows to the divine in you”.