Pema Chodron seems to find me and my shenpa when I need her most. "Vulnerability comes in many guises. We may feel off balance, as if we don’t know what’s going on. We may feel lonely or depressed or angry. Most of us want to avoid emotions that make us feel vulnerable... But if instead of thinking of these feelings as bad, we could think of them as road signs or barometers, then we would see the feelings for what they really are: an open doorway to freedom from suffering, the path to our deepest well-being and joy. We have a choice." tricycle.org/magazine/fundamental-ambiguity-being-human/ "So the challenge is to notice the emotional tug of shenpa when it arises and to stay with it for one and a half minutes without the storyline. Can you do this once a day, or many times throughout the day, as the feeling arises? This is the challenge. This is the process of unmasking, letting go, opening the mind and heart." How will you practice being the Curious Observer in your own life?
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