The way to weaken the habit of clinging to fixed ideas and contact the fluidity of thoughts and emotions is to shift your focus to a wider perspective. Instead of getting caught in the drama, see if you can feel the dynamic energy of the thoughts and emotions. See if you can experience the space around the thoughts: experience how they arise in space, dwell for awhile, and then return to space. If you dont suppress the thoughts and emotions and dont run with them, then you find yourself in an interesting place. The place of not rejecting or justifying is right in the middle of nowhere. It is here that you can finally embrace what youre feeling. It is here that you can look out and see the sky.... Our identity, which seems so reliable, so substantial, is in fact very fluid, very dynamic. There are unlimited possibilities to what we might think, what we might feel, and how we might experience reality. We have what it takes to free ourselves from the suffering of a fixed identity and connect with the fundamental slipperiness and mystery of our being, which has no fixed identity. Your sense of yourself--who you think you are at the relative level--is a very restricted version of who you truly are. Pema Chodron, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change at 19-20.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:20:57 +0000
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