What We Mean By Suffering: A Recovery Dharma Topic
Suffering is built into the fabric of life and there is a certain amount of it that’s completely unavoidable. We don’t need to personalize it.
Tag: buddhism
Mindfulness Of Elements: A Recovery Dharma Topic
As one breathes in and out with careful attention, one may simply note the varying sensations of breath as soft or hard, wet or dry, cool or warm, and moving or still.
Wanting To Kill Myself: Craving For Annihilation
My response to suicidal ideation was that there must’ve been something severely wrong with me. That I was broken.
Mindfulness Of Breath: A Recovery Dharma Topic
When the mind gets lost in thought, we gently note the distraction as whatever it may be and then return our attention to the sensation of breathing.
Burn With Me, My Sisters: A Reflection On Grief
My grief was none other than love that I didn’t want to feel. Love that was so great it felt too dangerous to allow out.
Feeling Tone: A Recovery Dharma Topic
Mindfulness of feeling tones is the practice of bringing attention to the way that sensations are met in our experience.
Spiritual Maturity: A Recovery Dharma Topic
We begin to question certainty in anything, understanding that certainty moves a person down the continuum toward violence.
Stories In My Cell
Some people have a moment of desperation followed by spiritual revelation. Some people have near death experiences and see their lives flash before their eyes. I had neither of those.