What You Resist, Persists: Working With Aversion
A confession: the theme of this month’s newest talk resulted in large part due to a difficult experience I had in the recovery room of the hospital, following a surgery I
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Compassion Practices, Newsletter
A Quick Short Story, and Some News
🌼 A quick short story: On June 23, I went into the hospital for a 4-hour post-cancer follow-up surgery. A week later, after happily getting the thumbs up from my surgeon, my husband
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Is Meditation Selfish? Advice from the Acrobat Sutta
Regardless of our own personal circumstances, it seems the vast majority of us tend to grapple with what is considered an ancient human torment: the challenge of trying to balance a need for self-care, along with a strong sense of feeling responsible for helping others, or the world in general – a particular push and pull that can often be so painful.
Happily, for us, the Buddha was also aware of this struggle 2600 years ago, and offered us some very sage advice about how to work with it, in many different ways.