In this episode we discuss:
- The first step to dealing with difficult emotions is seeing and accepting what’s there
- How practicing mindfulness expands your window of tolerance
- Tools to help us remember the vastness
- Remembering that our story is always changing
- How we are bound to experience both the beauty and pain in life
- The importance of compassion
- How there are many simple practices to transform our heart and mind
- Choosing the best spiritual practices based on what we’re drawn to
- The possibility of seeing the Buddha-nature in every human being
- The refuge in community and how we need each other
- Trusting that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves
- Learning to trust our inner knowledge, heart, and body
- Accepting our fear and understanding that growth comes after fear
- The doubting mind and our capacity to recognize it
- Learning to not judge the thoughts that come up in meditation
- How we all have the seeds of awakening within us
