by Jack Elias on June 26, 2015in Addictions & Compulsions, Communication, compassion, Depression & Anxiety, Emotions: Becoming Skillful, exploring consciousness, learning, mindfulness, Overcoming Fear, UncategorizedDo you ever get an anxious feeling . . . followed by a fearful thought that something must be going wrong?Then the thou...
In my own training, I have always been instructed not to get caught up in accepting and rejecting, not to get caught by biased mind. Chögyam Trungpa was particularly emphatic about this. At one time, this presented a question for me: Did it mean I should not have preferences such as liking one kind of flower or one kind of food far better than...
A first step [in remaining open] is to understand that a feeling of dread or psychological discomfort might just be a sign that old habits are getting liberated, that we are moving closer to the natural open state. Trungpa Rinpoche said that awakening warriors would find themselves in a constant state of anxiety. Personally, I've found this to be t...
