How (and why) to accept the unacceptable (aka impermanence)

Hello, I hope you and your loved ones are well. Before today’s 10-minute meditation, I share some thoughts about the first noble truth of Buddhism–that life is suffering (or unsatisfying). Thanks a lot, Buddha! Not exactly what I was hoping to hear. Nonetheless…there is power and even joy in abiding in reality. In your life. IRL (in real life). It’s one thing to have an intellectual understanding of a spiritual teaching but another thing entirely to live it out in your own life, today. In this video, I offer a few thoughts about how (and why) to try. 

One of the stories I told took place in a conversation in the Open Heart Project sangha, our membership community. Please think about joining. It’s important–some would say necessary–to journey together with others, to be held, and accompanied. Even though each path is solitary, to tread the path alone together changes…everything. 

With love, 
Susan

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