The power of the paramita of patience is that it is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. By patience, we do not mean enduring—grin and bear it. In any situation, instead of reacting suddenly, we could chew it, smell it, look at it, and open ourselves to seeing what's there. The opposite of p...
RIGHT NOW
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on February 10, 2016
The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.Pema Chodron
Family is an interesting thing. Here we are, placed together in life with people who are meant to be the closest to us, and it's not always clear why we were put together this way. There's the family we choose, and the family we don't choose, woven together with all our strange similarities and differences. And there's always that family member tha...
