When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow theyre going to improve, which is sort of subtle aggression against who they really are. Its a bit like saying, If I jog, Ill be a much better person. If I could only get a nicer house, Id be a better person. If I could meditate and calm down, Id be a better person. But loving-kindness toward ourselves doesnt mean getting rid of anything. Loving-kindness means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. Meditation practice isnt about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. Its about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, thats what we study, thats what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. - Pema Chodron
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:27:10 +0000
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