On the first day of 2019, we explored three perspectives using VOICE (Voice of Innate Clarity Exercise). We began my considering this quote from Shunryu Suzuki, the author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind:

Usually our mind is very busy and complicated, and it is difficult to be concentrated on what we are doing...Our activity is shadowed by some preconceived idea. The thinking not only leaves some trace or shadow, but also gives us many other notions about other activities and things. These traces and notions make our minds very complicated.

Next, we worked with the voice of intention. What do we mean by intention? What are we intending, in small ways and large? How do these intentions relate to our everyday self?

The next was realization or making an intention real, bringing it into being. When we realize an intention, how does that connect to the past, present, or future?

The final voice was 'always arriving', or the act of coming into each moment as something fresh and new. What would it mean to include intention and realization in nowness? How would they be different? How would we show up in this way?