By Spring Washam — 2017
Like the Buddha, we all get our call to wake up. It often comes when life isn’t working and we may have to go a little crazy. Here’s how Buddhist teacher Spring Washam answered her call.
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If we shift our perspective to look at change framed through the lens of human, or even cosmic history, we begin to recognize that everything is always changing.
Five years ago, my father fell into a deep bout of depression. Twelve months later his depression culminated in suicide.
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As my spiritual journey deepened, friends fell away. As I shed one identity after another, I no longer identified with the people attached to them.
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