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The first thing that happens in meditation is that we start to see what’s happening. Even though we still run away and we still indulge, we see what we’re doing clearly. One would think that our seeing it clearly would immediately make it just disappear, but it doesn’t. So for quite a long time, we just see it clearly. To the degree that we’re will
... See moreBut getting old, getting sick, losing what we love—we don’t see those events as natural occurrences. We want to ward off that sense of death, no matter what.
That was why I moved to Colorado, where I could spend more time in his presence. I moved closer, but I was definitely not ready to surrender. There was
The third kind of loneliness is avoiding unnecesssary activities. When we’re lonely in a “hot” way, we look for something to save us; we look for a way out. We get this queasy feeling that we call loneliness, and our minds just go wild trying to come up with companions to save us from despair. That’s called unnecessary activity. It’s a way of keepi
... See moreIn a place where there was so much practice and study going on, I could not get lost in trying to justify myself and blame others. That
Begin the journey without hope of getting ground under your feet. Begin with hopelessness.
We habitually ward off any sense of problem. We’re always trying to deny that it’s a natural occurrence that things change,
pleasure and pain, loss and gain, praise and blame, fame and disgrace.
the day I understood without question that we create our situation by how we use our mind, by how we keep patterning our responses to life in the same old, very
“Meditate on whatever provokes resentment” and “Lean into the sharp points.” While Trungpa Rinpoche was still in Tibet, his teacher Khenpo Gangshar trained him in this