With the commitment to not cause harm, we move away from reacting in ways that cause us to suffer, but we haven't yet arrived at a place that feels entirely relaxed and free. We first have to go through a growing-up process, a getting-used-to process. That process, that transition, is one of becoming comfortable with exactly what we're feeling as w...
PRICELESS ADVICE
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on September 23, 2015
When we look at the body in finer and finer detail, can we find what we're protecting? If we visualize searching right down amid the very marrow for the thingness of our body, can we find it? Attachment to one's physical form is based on the body being a reliable, continuous entity. But can we pinpoint what we're clinging to when we probe its depth...
PRICELESS ADVICE
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on September 17, 2015
The next time you lose heart and you can't bear to experience what you're feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the sto...
