Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
practice loving kindness to overcome anger. Loving kindness has the capacity to bring happiness to others without demanding anything in return. Practice compassion to overcome cruelty. Compassion has the capacity to remove the suffering of others without expecting anything in return. Practice sympathetic joy to overcome hatred. Sympathetic joy aris
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When the flag goes up, we have an opportunity: we can stay with our painful emotion instead of spinning out. Staying is how we get the hang of gently catching ourselves when we’re about to let resentment harden into blame, righteousness, or alienation. It’s also how we keep from smoothing things over by talking ourselves into a sense of relief or i
... See morePema Chodron • Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
You’ll no longer be afraid of hardship and suffering, because your heart will be big enough to embrace it all. You’ll no longer have the tendency to exclude. You’ll only want to embrace the whole world. And every daily practice—walking , sitting, smiling, and breathing—will take you in the direction of bodicitta.