Acceptance Is the Key to Freedom

Acceptance is what allows you to react wisely, versus just reacting. It's our ability to learn to accept whatever life throws at us that's the key to freedom. The buddhist understandin acceptance does not encourage or condone in any way resignation or disengagement. If you don't want to go through life in a state of constant reactivity, yelling at the game, i don't want this shape, then you need to learning to accept what it is and then you have the freedom to respond.