If I can’t stop thinking, maybe I can just let my thoughts go by without getting all caught up in them. Feel the breeze on your face or your neck? See how it’s going by? You’re not all hung up with it. You don’t have to see where each breeze goes. You don’t have to look quickly to see if it hit those trees over there. It’s breezes, and they’re just going by. Make your thoughts like those breezes, those little breezes...just going by.
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When
we really get a feeling for the coming and going of moments, it helps
us break the illusion of a solid, separate self, which gives us relief
from suffering.
Loch Kelly, “When Am I?”
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The Lion’s Roar Podcast: Anxiety and What to Do About It with Bruce Tift | ||
| This episode of The Lion’s Roar Podcast features psychotherapist and author Bruce Tift. | ||
| Anxiety
can be a pretty reasonable response to times of wide spread disease,
environmental disaster, social unrest and polarization. Associate editor
Chris Pacheco talks to Bruce Tift, psychotherapist and author of Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation, about attempting to control feelings of anxiety, why that only makes it worse, and what to do instead. |
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Smile at Fear: Pema Chodron on Bravery, Open Heart & Basic Goodness |
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we come to the understanding that we are needed and commit ourselves to
doing something about our own pain and the pain around us, we will find
that we are on a journey. A warrior is always on a journey, and a main
feature of that journey is fear. This fear is not simply something to be
lamented, avoided, or vanquished. It is something to be examined,
something to make a relationship with. |
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A
goalless practice is about being right here in each moment without any
conceptual objective in mind. It means putting the brakes on constantly
doing, and starting to just be in the world as you are.
Anthony Tshering, “How the Concept of Impermanence Can Help Anxiety-Ridden Millennials”
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The
power of acceptance can’t be overestimated. Accepting the basic fact of
the suffering and pain we witness, and remaining willing to experience
it, is what allows us to access our innate capacities for compassion.
Fleet Maull, “From Empathy to Compassion”
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The
violence in the US this month — the killing of African-American elders
at a grocery store, Asian elders worshiping in their church, and 19
small children and two of their teachers in their elementary school
classrooms — has elicited so much pain and grief. For many, it has also
elicited a new or renewed determination to try to make this a better
world. For others, well, for now it’s just exhaustion.
We invite you to join us this Friday, May 27, at 7:00 PM ET to hold space for our collective, whatever we feel, and offer metta to all who are suffering.
With lovingkindness,
All of us at IMS
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