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When Things Fall Apart, Don't Medicate (w/Drugs, Alcohol)-- Appreciate, Liberate

Old 07-07-2009, 10:28 AM
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When Things Fall Apart, Don't Medicate (w/Drugs, Alcohol)-- Appreciate, Liberate

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy…When things fall apart and we’re on the verge of we know not what, the test for each of us is to stay on the brink and not concretize. The spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell…We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep. Right now—in the very instant of groundlessness—is the seed of taking care of those who need our care and discovering our goodness.

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back…Those events and people in our lives who trigger our unresolved issues could be regarded as good news. We don’t have to go hunting for anything. We don’t need to try to create situations in which we reach our limit. They occur all by themselves, with clockwork regularity…Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We use all kinds of ways to escape—all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can’t stand it. We feel we must soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.
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Old 07-07-2009, 09:09 PM
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thanks Pema Chodron....
I knew I've heard that somewhere........
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