Impermanence has its advantages. All things change, even our hopes and dreams.
- We will gradually come to notice that thoughts and feelings aren’t as fixed or solid as they originally appear.
Wisdom, capability, loving-kindness, and compassion are what we are born with. Frustration, jealousy, guilt, shame, anxiety, greed competitiveness, and so on are experiences we learn, often through the influences of our own culture, our families, and our friends; and are reinforced by personal experience.
- Fear, shame, guilt, greed, competitiveness, and so on are simply veils
- they are perspectives inherited and reinforced by our cultures, or families, and personal experience.
- The positive prognosis is that the limited or limiting ideas we hold of the ourselves, others, and every other experience can be unlearned.
Re-source: Reshape
to give a new form or orientation to
“How can we get rid of attachments? How can we get rid of hope and fear?”
- The simple answer is, by not trying.
- Why? Because when we try to get rid of something, we are really just reinforcing hope and fear.
- If we treat some condition, feeling, sensation or any other type of experience as an enemy, we only make it stronger.
- We’re resisting and succumbing to it at the same time.
How do you get Happiness? There will always be an opposite reaction to that answer.
- Many if not all of these answers will be something that comes from outside (not within).
Whatever discomfort we feel (subtle, intense, or somewhere in between) subsides to the degree we cut through our fixation on a very limited, conditioned, and conditional view of ourselves and begin to identify with the capability to experience anything at all.
- We are endowed with capacities that we frequently fail to recognize until they’re pointed out to us.
- These reminders are opportunities to wake up from the dream of conditioned awareness.
craving and resource from “Joyful Wisdom” – embracing change and finding freedom – by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Eric Swanson