UNLOCKING A SOFTNESS
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on March 19, 2015
Even after many years, many of us continue to practice harshly. We practice with guilt, as if we're going to be excommunicated if we don't do it right. We practice so we won't be ashamed of ourselves and with fear that someone will discover what a “bad" meditator we really are. The old joke is that a Buddhist is someone who is either med...
Spring is in the air! Daffodils delight, wild iris glisten, bluebirds nesting, warm sunny days. Delightful indeed! And yet, haunting with our lack of rain here in California. Invisible imbalance, with sunny illusions. I think about the reality of our water situation as a metaphor of what is upon us.What are our sunny illusions? Where is our interio...
BE AN INSPIRATION
Posted by Paul DiSegna
on March 11, 2015
In the early seventies a friend kept telling me, “Whatever you do, don’t try to make those feelings go away.” His advice went on: “Anything you can learn about working with your sense of discouragement or your sense of fear or your sense of bewilderment or your sense of feeling inferior or your sense of resentment—...
