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Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.
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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.
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The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
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In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.
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It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.
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To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.
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For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
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It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.
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Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities.
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Religion and philosophy have their value, but in the end all we can do is open to mystery and live a path with heart
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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.
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The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.
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We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.
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In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course I get angry, but then a few minutes later I say to myself, 'What's the use of this,' and I let it go.'
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Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.
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Born:
July 16, 1945
(age 78)
Bio:
Jack Kornfield is a bestselling American author and teacher in the vipassana movement in American Theravada Buddhism.
Known for:
A path with heart (1993)
The Wise Heart (2008)
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