A common space for harmonic peacemakers
As we have already seen, reversing the attitude of not wanting to suffer is the whole basis for transforming suffering into our spiritual path. This is because we simply won’t be able to turn suffering into the path as long as anxiety and irritation continue to eat away at our confidence and disturb our mind.
The more we arrive at actually transforming suffering into the path, the more we will enhance and reinforce all our previous practice. This is because our courage and good humour will grow all the more, once we can see from our own experience how suffering causes our spiritual practice and qualities to blossom.
It is said that by training gradually with smaller sufferings, ‘step by step, in easy stages’, then in the end we’ll be able to handle big suffering and difficulties too. We must go about it like this, because it is extremely difficult to have an experience of something which is beyond our level or capacity.
~ Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima
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"I'm not saying it's a bad thing to take your individual life seriously. But you could also see your problems and challenges as manifestations of nature, like patterns in waves, or waves in the ocean, or shells upon the beach. Have you really looked at a seashell? There's not an aesthetic fault in it anywhere—it's absolutely perfect. Now, do you think that shells look at each other and critique each other's appearance? 'Well, your markings are a little crooked and not very well spaced.' Of course not, but that's what we do. Every one of us is marvelous and complicated and interesting and gorgeous just as we are. Really take a look into another person's eyes. They are jewelry beyond compare—just beautiful!"
~ Alan Watts
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved.
They come together and they fall apart.
Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that.
The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy ..
~ Pema Chödrön
Art by Katia Perez
Lots of good things here!
Thnak you Rosmarie and Eva!
Thank you Rosmarie!
"PEACE
NOT WAR
GENEROSITY
NOT GREED
EMPATHY
NOT HATE
CREATIVITY
NOT DESTRUCTION
EVERYBODY
NOT JUST US"
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