......success and failure are your journey*......
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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:
The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.
When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....
You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.
And,
Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....
[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.
2 comments:
be patient with yourself. it ain't all sunshine and lollipops just b/c you're on meds. they help you get perspective so you can re-learn how to live well -- like you mentioned the other day about being with people, being active. they give you that energy and the brain clarity to remember that more and more often.
but days can still suck. and not because you're failing somehow -- it's just becaus that's life. some days just suck. how you deal with that sucking is what is important. the meds will help you re-see how to manage that crap -- and you can be down without being out.
you know? it's not about being happy all the time (that's the stepford thing), it's about living well despite days that suck and times you're unhappy.
i love you. be gentle with your beautiful self.
thank you so much Rie... you are wonderful.
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