Month: January 2023
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Easy Does It Dharma; Practices of a Bodhisattva #37 ccl.
If you've ever been to a 12-step meeting, you've probably seen the famous sign, "Easy Does It". Some who've clawed our way out of hell to scratch a morsel of serenity have done so out of sheer force, which can beg the question of how to go easy, when everything has always been hard? Others w/ACEs in recovery may react w/passivity, thus reinforcing a negative action toward ourselves not by what we do, but what we don't do to protect ourselves.
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Shaman Meditation From Peru w/Charo; Practices of a Bodhisattva #36
Direct from Peru, Charo Verastegui (María del Rosario Verástegui Schmitt), a fellow practitioner of the Chod, as well as indigenous spiritual practices. See past and future books and episodes for more on Chod as the best tool available to cut the root of attachment, which is the root of addiction. Continuing with Practices of a Bodhisattva, #36.
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Is Suffering Optional?; Practices of a Bodhisattva #35
As addicts in any form of Buddhist Recovery , Dharma Recovery, Refuge Recovery, we try to focus on mindful, compassionate presences in the four moments that Buddha described. Yet, when we have ACEs and are in working with Trauma and Recovery, our resistance seems to persists despite our best efforts. Learn how to apply the Backwards Law, and the Law of Inverse Proportion to release our deepest attachments -even our addiction to suffering.
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What We Resist Persists, But Resistance is Futile; Practices of a Bodhisattva #34
As addicts in any form of Buddhist Recovery , Dharma Recovery, Refuge Recovery, we try to focus on mindful, compassionate presences in the four moments that Buddha described. Yet, when we have ACEs and are in working with Trauma and Recovery, our resistance seems to persists despite our best efforts. Learn how to apply the Backwards Law, and the Law of Inverse Proportion to release our deepest attachments -even our addiction to suffering.
