This week, those of us following Sharon Salzberg’s program in the 28-Day Meditation Challenge were tasked with working with mindfulness of thoughts and emotions.
Listen.
That drill outside the window,
They're fixing the street so it won't collapse under us.
On the subway, a baby howls.
Pull out your earbuds,
Breathe in her high-pitched wails.
The heart of the world is bleeding, and she can't shut the valves...
Over the last few months, I’ve been repeating a mantra of sorts to myself. Almost daily some moment arises where I think to myself: “I am not my thoughts; I am not my feelings.”
I am going back to the basics and reading about the four noble truths, the first of which is suffering or dukkha.
"Now this, monks, is the Noble Truth of dukkha: Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, death is dukkha; sorrow, lamentation, pain,...
