"All dharmas agree at one point" is saying that if pain arises, we can instead look out and think bigger. It can be acknowledged pain and it can become the basis of empathy. Then this is shaking up or freeing ourselves from this prison of separateness, which causes us so much pain and limits our world so much to our own hopes and fears or...
TEMPORARY AS CLOUDS
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on December 23, 2015
Limitations can be acknowledged without exaggerating or succumbing to them. When we're confident that our mind is workable, our failings don't seem like such a big deal. They're as temporary as clouds, and in no way diminish the skylike nature of our mind. With this kind of confidence in our limitless potential, the mightiest challenges won't cause...
STONES AND A LEMON
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on December 22, 2015
Embody Your Leadership PotentialEarly morning dark. A faint glow in the eastern sky backlights the steep rising peaks and sloping descents of the hills as if an ancient hand writes the history of the world on the landscape. I read a passage from Rabindranath Tagore by candlelight before meditation. He's a poet, some call him a saint, who has an exc...