SOFT SPOT
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on August 13, 2016
SOFT SPOTThere is a teaching that says that behind all hardening and tightening and rigidity of the heart, there's always fear. But if you touch fear, behind fear there is a soft spot. And if you touch that soft spot, you find the vast blue sky. You find that which is ineffable, ungraspable, and unbiased, that which can support and awaken us at an...
TRUSTING IN SUCCESS AND FAILUREIf we accept a challenge and take certain steps to accomplish something, the process will yield results—either success or failure. Trust means that we know that our actions will bring a definite response from reality. We know that we will get a message. Trust, then, is being willing to take a chance, knowing th...
NO SUFFERINGThe Buddha's sermon on the Four Truths has been called the First Turning of the Wheel, and the teaching of Prajnaparamita has been called the Second Turning of the Wheel. In the traditional formula of the First Truth, suffering is equated with the Five Skandhas, with which it is necessarily co-extensive. But since the Five Skandhas are...
