Some of us can accept others right where they are a lot more easily than we can accept ourselves. We feel that compassion is reserved for someone else, and it never occurs to us to feel it for ourselves. My experience is that by practicing without "shoulds," we gradually discover our wakefulness and our confidence. Gradually, without any ...
By Wisdom Pills / wisdompills.comLuther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman, Black Elk and Gertrude Bonnin occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains before, and during, the arrival and subsequent spread of the European pioneers. Raised in th...
OUR DARKEST MOMENT
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on April 15, 2015
If we haven't relaxed with groundlessness during our life, death may well be terrifying. But if we've given birth to bodhichitta [awakened heart], death won't cause us to retreat into self-absorption, no matter now afraid we might be. Even fear will connect us with all the others who are equally terrified and alone. Right there, in what might be ou...
