“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”― Elizabeth Lesser From ElizabethContinue reading “Reading: Change…for better”
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Reading: Hard Lessons
This suffering BS is real. “Life is difficult, the Buddha said, for everyone. Suffering, he taught, is the demand that experience be different from what it is. Of course we do what we can to address pain. Sometimes illnesses are cured. Sometimes relationships are mended. Sometimes losses are recouped. Sometimes, though, nothing can be done. The Buddha’sContinue reading “Reading: Hard Lessons”
Reading from Class: “The Power Needed in Yoga” by Sri Aurobindo
Thanks to Kate for reminding me of this reading I shared in the past “The power needed in Yoga is the power to go through effort, difficulty, or trouble without getting fatigued, depressed, discouraged, or impatient and without breaking off the effort or giving up one’s aim or resolution. A quiet vigilant but undistressed persistenceContinue reading “Reading from Class: “The Power Needed in Yoga” by Sri Aurobindo”
Reading from Class: Pema Chödrön on Dealing with Discomfort
“This particular teaching on the Four Limitless Ones, on maitri, compassion, joy and equanimity is really a teaching on how to take the situations of your life and train- actually train- in catching yourself closing down, catching yourself getting hard, and training in opening at that very point, or softening. In some sense reversing aContinue reading “Reading from Class: Pema Chödrön on Dealing with Discomfort”