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When you meet the Buddha
There is an old zen koan, a paradoxical riddle to move out of the logical brain and invoke enlightenment. When you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. And I'm kind of loving it right now.
No Exit
It feels terrifying, right?! The idea that there's no escape away from what feels hard or painful. Let's face it, we all have our ways of escape. For some, it's using a substance like alcohol, drugs or even food. For others, it might be watching television or reading. I even see it within spirituality, using self reflection as an aggressive tool to get away from what is happening.
Chasing the mystical
The mystical offers us the chance to see that life is so much more than what we can see and touch. It gives us a glimpse behind the veil; an opportunity to feel how vast and how interconnected we actually are. We touch in on our own capacity for joy and wonder. We see the world from a different perspective and we know we're ok within it.
How I Learned to Accept Myself
I’ve been hard on myself most of my life. As a perfectionist, I learned at an early age that I needed to do things the “right” way in order to gain approval. And so I did just that. It was what I always knew, and it worked for me through my time in school. But at a certain point, as I began to navigate my adult life, there was an underlying feeling of unease when I would acknowledge my constant stream of self-judgment.