Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.
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- According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the quivering of the pure heart when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life. β¨ Jack Kornfield (2008). A Path With Heart: The Class β¦ βΆ
- Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do. β¨ Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Ins β¦ βΆ
- ...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without β¦ βΆ
- We can always begin again. β¨ Jack Kornfield (2012). Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are, p.14, Shambhala Publications
- In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our task is to bow to it, to meet it with understanding and compassion.
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