First, I want to assure you that I am quite well! The experience I shared in the last post was a wonderful opening for me, not something I am upset about or wish had been different. Not at all. It was exactly the teaching I needed at exactly the right time. Isn’t it always? Second, [...]
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Postscript on vulnerability
Posted by sharanam on February 4, 2011
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/postscript-on-vulnerability/
Opening to vulnerability
This practice is really about deeper and deeper love. That’s what my teacher Doug says. It’s true, I know, but there are so many walls up still. It’s quite difficult to plow straight into the heart. And it’s much easier to just keep it all nice and intellectual, even in the practice itself — to [...]
Posted by sharanam on February 3, 2011
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/opening-to-vulnerability/
Solitude and the mirror of relationship
A commenter on a previous post asked “I wonder if you have read the story of the great Zen master Bankei?” And then proceeds to tell the story: “He was on retreat for 10 years and nothing changed in his life. One day he discovered his own Unborn Buddha mind at the age of 26. [...]
Posted by sharanam on November 16, 2010
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/mirror-of-relationship/
A revolutionary view on relationship
When one has a dedicated meditation practice, one of the things that is unmistakable in watching our thoughts, bodily sensations, reactions, emotions, mental wanderings, and the like is that everything is impermanent. Anicca. How does the idea of a committed partnership or love relationship reconcile with this very basic fact of life, the arising and [...]
Posted by sharanam on July 1, 2009
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a-revolutionary-view-on-relationship/
Everything called into question
So there were two parallel transformations going on while I was in Mongolia. The first involved the putting into daily practice one of the deepest heart connections I have ever experienced with another person, and had previously had in an almost exclusively verbal and intellectual realm from afar; and the second involved seeing how simply [...]
Posted by sharanam on June 28, 2009
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/everything-called-into-question/
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