By Shelly Tygielski — 2019
We all know when we’re feeling overwhelmed, but learning to press the pause button starts with being vulnerable enough to claim your healing time.
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ~Nelson Mandela
The ground of fearlessness, says Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, is renouncing hard-heartedness and allowing ourselves to be tender, sad, and fully present.
As long as you think vulnerability is weakness, you’re going to be afraid. Mirabai Bush and Ram Dass on the kind of vulnerability that’s actually strength.
Buddhist teacher Joan Halifax describes five “edge states” where courage meets fear and freedom meets suffering.