When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

We can be with what’s happening and not dissociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird,

We forget what we’ve learned through meditation and know to be true. When really strong emotion comes up, all the doctrines and beliefs that we’ve held on to seem kind of pitiful by comparison, because emotions are so much more powerful.

The word desire encompasses that addiction quality, the way we grab for something because we want to find a way to make things okay. That

Then Marpa gave him the teachings and their relationship entered a new phase of tenderness and warmth.

wider, more generous, more enlightened perspective arises.

prostrated three times, and asked, “May I have permission to go into battle with you?” Fear said, “Thank you for showing me so much respect that you ask permission.” Then the young warrior said, “How can I defeat you?” Fear replied, “My weapons are that I talk fast, and I get very close to your face. Then you get completely unnerved, and you do wha

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

“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

It’s like finding that the sky and the sun are always there and that it’s the storms and clouds that come and go. Somehow, feeling that we are ready to have no exit just occurs by itself.

Trungpa Rinpoche once asked a group of students, “What do you do when you get squeezed? What do you do when things are unbearable?” We all sat there, wondering