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Radical acceptance
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.... I wanted to know what it would be like if all boundaries dissolved and just let life live through me. As I relaxed open, my heart and mind filled with tenderness toward everything that felt so painful in me and seemed so wrong. I realized that any argument I had with life - from the slight self-criticism to the utter anguish of shame - separated me from the love and awareness that are my true home. Many tim
Weeding The Mind
Weeds have a very strong and persistent root system. You manage to weed them out one year, only to find them again the next. Just like thought formations, they just keep coming. I’ve been thinking about weeds as thought formations that keep us stuck in a cycle of unhelpful behaviors, otherwise known as samskara. Like weeds, these thoughts begin as a seed and then root themselves into our consciousness and cloud our experience: our actions, interactions, reactions… The sanskri
