The Sight of Forgiveness: What the Traditions Teach Us About Letting Go
Without that recognition, “forgiving” may just mean suppressing what is too heavy to face.
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Category: Empower Me
Bankei Zen: A New Narrative
By Angel Roberto Puente When we begin, our ideas about practice can affect the outcome. One...
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Nature, Noticing and the Lines We Leave Behind: A Conversation with John Muir Laws
Yet Laws is quick to note that wonder doesn’t require distance. “People say, ‘Let’s go to nature,’ then drive five hours. But nature is in the spider in the corner of your apartment. Wonder is all around, all the time. To make life most alive, we must apprehend the daily presentations life gives us. That is the fabric of life itself.”
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You’re Not Crazy. You’re Grieving: What Happens When a Relationship Ends in Betrayal and Trauma
Survivors of infidelity, abandonment or narcissistic abuse have long known it: the death of a deeply committed relationship can trigger trauma almost indistinguishable from PTSD. When betrayal, gaslighting, or emotional abuse are involved, grief becomes a labyrinth.
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When Words Stop Being Mental Plasticine
I was suffering because it’s in the nature of life to suffer: illness happens, pain happens, death happens, even the groovy things like dub reggae, samosas and Kung Fu Panda can’t hide the fact that life sucks, if you allow it to. The Second Noble Truth, with all the semantic shenanigans associated with what dukkha really means, is likewise very simple.
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