“I always feel that somehow you have to reframe that bad feeling – so that you see it as a doorway to liberation, as an opening to the vast blue sky.”
–Pema Chödrön
Another beautiful teaching by Pema Chödrön:
I quote this so much, this Poem of Rick Fields, where he said:
“Behind the hardness there is fear
And if you touch the heart of the fear
You find sadness (it sort of gets more and more tender)
And if you touch the sadness
You find the vast blue sky.”This is really what I am encouraging is the next time you feel yourself hooked, if you pause and you breath with it, and you don’t act out and you don’t repress, but you think of this quote, and you think the ones that will create the new culture that is needed are those that are not afraid to be insecure.
Whatever it is that you think at that moment, maybe this is what it feels like to be burning up the seeds that have caused all the pain on this earth – this is what that feels like.
I always feel that somehow you have to reframe that bad feeling – so that you see it as a doorway to liberation, as an opening to the vast blue sky.
“Vast Blue Sky” – A teaching by Pema Chödrön
excerpted from a talk entitled “Practicing Peace in Times of War”
published by Shambhala Publications by Pema Chödrön
Photo by Sabrina Fritts
Your posts are so wonderful. Thus one comes at a perfect time. Thank you.
Thanks so much for your kind words, Sandy. So glad you’re enjoying my posts! Always love hearing and knowing that they’re resonating for people.