When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

What makes maitri such a different approach is that we are not trying to solve a problem. We are not striving to make pain go away or to become a better person. In fact, we are giving up control altogether and letting concepts and ideals fall apart.

Well, with samaya, we do not get to sit by the door. It’s the ultimate trick. It’s the only way we finally experience our experience; it’s our only entrance into the self-existing sacredness of the world. Before we feel ready for this kind of demand, we make a journey. We start with our confusion and our wildness, and we begin to let meditation and

let the thoughts that “only I could rescue us” come and I let them go. I decided to see what would happen without my input—even if it meant that everything would fall apart. Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart. Stopping my actions was the first step and the hardest one. Not saving the day was going against the grain of how I operat

Fear of death is the background of the whole thing. It’s why we feel restless, why we panic, why there’s anxiety. But if we totally experience hopelessness, giving up all hope of alternatives to the present moment, we can have a joyful relationship with our lives, an honest, direct relationship, one that no longer ignores the reality of impermanenc