08-02-2017, 03:30 PM
Also, wanted to share something I read in Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart that I thought described a very compassionate approach to discipline. It's actually very similar to the way you all discussed it!
This strikes me as hardly describing an exercise in controlling the self harshly. Instead, discipline means simply not giving up on the flawed, confused, striving self as it pursues its goal.
Thanks again for discussing my question!
Quote:Complete discipline means that at every opportunity, we're willing to come back, just gently come back to the present moment.
This strikes me as hardly describing an exercise in controlling the self harshly. Instead, discipline means simply not giving up on the flawed, confused, striving self as it pursues its goal.
Thanks again for discussing my question!