Dorothy Hunt -
Wendell Berry - the peace of wild things
Wisdom in Turning towards our experience
What I resist, persists. Languishing in Victimhood?
Eckhardt Tolle: what you accept fully you go beyond?
Triggered by someone? Something I need to look at … why cling to it.. if there is suffering, there is something I’m doing to support that suffering, something I’m clinging to … can I be with this? What an I feeling in my body?
If I can stay with it, expand my window of tolerance, I will see its changing nature a wisdom in turning towards it I can experience the feelings in my body, allow myself to feel all the separate energies of fear will come and go and I will be able to see it —- make the obstacle the path “
If A restless mind is the obstacle to being calm, then my attention to that can be the antidote instead of saying my mind is too busy, I can’t meditate, instead I turn towards it, and say yes
neurosis is always a way of avoiding existential intensity. Bruce Tift. A variation of Jung’s comment. Neurosis
We can learn to ride the waves of difficult experience . Nothing lasts forever.
Rilke: What appears to us as the most difficult … only a dragon who needs love. Who needs our attention.
Bringing in the heart, bringing in compassion in a moment of compassion. Bringing in kindness to ourselves.
Book by Christina Feldman- the boundless heart - compassion as an attitudinal commitment. Bringing love and kindness to all our experience and to all people even those who push our buttons.
Include all in our Lovingkindness practice.
