I am hosting this training that is very close to my heart, started a few new things, closed a big project, a relationships' friction, someone visiting and blablabla...
Nothing big, just life, lifing.
The point is:
It would be easy for me to start judging myself and fall into the story "I shouldn't feel this way, I don't want to feel stressed"
You can't have a human mind and body and think not to engage with it, Reader.
We live in an impermanent system with constant change, birth, aging, illness, death, and to be with what you do not want will bring suffering (in pali, dukkha).
The biggest gift that studying/practicing Buddhism has given me so far is feeling the stress and not thinking, "it's not supposed to be there", because it is.
Knowing that I won't feel better IF ONLY "this stressor would go away." There's no "experience behind it."
This moment is the only experience. Stress, suffering, and all. Sometimes there's a lot of work to do 'to get there,' but sometimes it's realizing that 'there we already are,' :D
In tomorrow's session, we'll have a recap of what we discussed last week about the first Establishment (Mindfulness of the Body), and we'll talk about the second establishment: Mindfulness of Feelings.
This time, with more focus on Sangha (to leverage the huge wisdom we had in the room) and practice.
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