DON'T LET IT GO BY
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on June 2, 2016
One time I had a wonderful evening with the author Alice Walker. Someone had arranged for us to do an event together, and actually it turned out to be wonderful because she loves tonglen, and that's what she wanted to talk about. She said one of the things she does is takes note of when things are going well in her life, when she appreciates somet...
Re-PostThere are times when life is just great. You're feeling happy and confident, on top of your game. But other times - and sometimes, out of nowhere - things go downhill. Tragedies, accidents, stressful events, conflicts, hostility - we all face these things at some point. How do you continue being the best self you can be, in spite of what yo...
What we're working with in basic meditation practice—and more explicitly in tonglen practice—is the middle ground between acting out and repressing. We learn to see our thoughts of hatred, lust, poverty, loathing, whatever they might be. We learn to identify the thoughts as "thinking," let them go, and begin to contact the tex...
