Via Daily Dharma: Facing Our Emotions with Clarity

If you turn your awareness directly into an emotion it stops developing. This doesn’t mean you are analyzing it or thinking about it but rather turning toward it with clear awareness.

—Lama Tsultrim Allione, “Feeding Your Demons”

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Via Daily Dharma: Why Is Suffering So Painful?

Clinging to our notion of what we think should be is what causes the “suffering of suffering.” The suffering itself is not so bad, it’s the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

—Allen Ginsberg, “Negative Capability: Kerouac’s Buddhist Ethic”

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