Who among us isn’t occasionally led around the nose by our own strong
feelings of aversion or wanting? In this April 18, 2012 podcast on Tara Brach’s web site, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in conversation with Brach,
explains how we can be compassionate with feelings that are “real,” yet gently
examine them to see if they are “true.” Sometimes our strong feelings come from
past experiences that are internalized in the body, he says. Rather than
suppressing or overriding them, we can take them seriously, gently examining
them to help ourselves determine whether they are real and true – or real but
not true – before we take action.
As an illustration, Rinpoche humorously describes the
compassionate, mindful internal conversation he had with his feelings after he found
himself unable to cross a glass-floor sky bridge between buildings in Thailand.
I’ll definitely be taking a look at Rinpoche’s new book, Open Mind, Open Heart: Awakening the Power
of Essence Love.
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