08-04-2017, 09:49 AM
(08-02-2017, 02:35 PM)rva_jeremy Wrote: Is it just me or have we had like three episodes drop within the span of a week? Good job guys!
I slipped up and missed a publishing day, so it was published weekly for the past 3 weeks, and then slipped up again and forgot to post one on Bring4th, so posted two threads in one day last week. We should be back to a somewhat normal schedule (though Homecoming is bound to interrupt it probably).
(08-02-2017, 03:30 PM)rva_jeremy Wrote: 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!
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!
It reminds me of something I heard to help in mindfulness meditation. When we find ourselves carried away by our thoughts instead of simply witnessing them, as mindfulness calls for, a very simple way to guide ourselves back is to ask the question, "Avoiding?"
Not necessarily to explore the answer to the question, the single-word question is a gentle guidance that really helps to soothe the self and allow our awareness to remain centered in the state of mindfulness. It's not a command, it's not forceful, it more serves as a gentle suggestion.
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The only frontier that has ever existed is the self.
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