 Working With Pain and Suffering
We all deal with pain and suffering. But how can we better deal with them? These classic teachings from Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sylvia Boorstein, Pema Chodron, Traleg Ripoche and more — all from the pages of the Shambhala Sun — will point the way.
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Does awareness suffer? Does it feel pain or sadness? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-based
Stress Reduction teaches us how to discover a mind of freedom and
awareness even in the midst of stress and suffering. We can meet our
pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it
is transformed.
Even
while we suffer, says Darlene Cohen, we can experience joy in life by
opening up fully to our experience, not closing down. Drawing on her
training as a Zen teacher and her own long experience with chronic
pain, she offers an awareness approach to living well with suffering.
Traleg
Rinpoche, Glenn Wallis, and Phillip Moffitt explain why anxiety and
dissatisfaction are the means by which we can truly begin the practice
of inner transformation.
At her weekly meditation class, Sylvia Boorstein finds that sharing
stories of those we love and worry about leaves her feeling kinder and
more connected.
After a life time of
contemplating death and caring for the dying, Zen teacher Joan Halifax
reflects on her life's work and the breaking of her own bones. Kristin
Barendsen reports.
Chronic pain is bad enough, says Chris Stewart-Patterson, M.D., but at least there are ways not to add to your misery.
Does awareness suffer? Does it feel pain or sadness? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness-based
Stress Reduction teaches us how to discover a mind of freedom and
awareness even in the midst of stress and suffering. We can meet our
pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it
is transformed.
Buddhism’s
mind-training slogans help us work with all the challenges of life,
from the upheavals of our own emotions to the inevitable losses and
disappointments of this imperfect world. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche
explains how obstacles can be brought to the spiritual path and become
opportunities for awakening.
We
base our lives on seeking happiness and avoiding suffering, but the
best thing we can do for ourselves—and for the planet—is to turn this
whole way of thinking upside down. Pema Chödrön shows us Buddhism’s
radical side.
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