#Meditation-tips #Empath-tips #HSP | Part 3 Jack Kornfield's A Path With #Heart Revisited #mindfulness #awareness

"And inwardly, it means having the determination, to stick with that practice, through whatever difficulties, and doubts arise, until you have come to true clarity, and understanding. Remember also, that the practices themselves, are only vehicles for you to develop awareness, loving kindness, and compassion on the path to freedom. As the buddha said, "one need not carry the raft on one's head, after crossing the stream". We need to learn how to honor, and use a practice for as long as it serves us, which in most cases is a very long time, but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear. We can be thankful for the raft that supports our journey, and still realize, that though we benefit not everyone will take the same path. Once we have made the outward choice of the many paths available and begun a systematic practice, we often find ourselves assailed from within, by fears and doubts, by all the feelings that we have never dared experience. Eventually all the dammed up pain of a lifetime, will arise. Once we have chosen a practice, we must have the courage and determination to stick with it and use in in all our difficulties. There are stories about the buddha practices when he was assailed by doubts and temptations, the teaching of his committment in the face of his challenges, is called "the lions roar". On the night of his enlightment, the buddha had vowed to sit on his one seat, and not get up until he had awakened, and found a freedom and a joy in the midst of all things. He was then, attacked by mara, the god who personifies all of the forces of aggression, delusion, and temptation in the mind. After flinging every force of temptation and difficulty to no avail, mara then challenged the buddha's right to sit on that spot, the buddha responded with a lions roar, and called upon the goddess of the earth, to bear whitness to his right to sit there, based upon the thousands of lifetimes of patience, earnestnest, compassion, virtue, and discipline he had cultivated. At this, the armies of mara were washed away. Continues with "the middle way"..

"We each need to make our lions roar, to persevere with unshakeable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears, we need to take the one seat as the buddha did."

"Almost everyone who undertakes a true spiritual path, will discover that a profound personal healing is a necessary part of his or her spiritual process. When this need is acknowledged, spiritual practice can be directed to bring such healing, to body, heart and mind. This is not a new notion. Since ancient times, spiritual practice has been described as a process of healing. The buddha and jesus, were both known as healers of the body, as well as great physicians of the spirit. Many people first come to spiritual life, hoping to skip over their sorrows and wounds, the difficult areas of their lives. They people hope to rise above them and enter a spiritual realm full of divine grace, free of all conflict. But true maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depths of our wounds, our grief from the past, unfulfilled longing, the sorrow that we've stored up during the course of our lives, as asanja? put it, "If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun"."

"While many kinds of healing can come through spiritual life, in the forms of grace, charismatic revivals, prayer, or ritual, two of the most significant kinds develop naturally, through a systematic spiritual practice. The first area of healing, comes from when we develop a relationship of trust with a teacher. Healing cannot come from ourselves alone, the process of inner healing, inevitably requires developing a committed relationship with a teacher or guide. This relationship itself becomes the ground for our opening to compassion and freedom of the spirit, where the pain and disappointments of the past, have left us isolated and closed. With a wise teacher, we can learn to trust again, when we allow our darkest fears, and worst dimensions to be whitnessed and compassionately accepted by another, we learn to accept them ourselves."

"Another kind of healing takes place, when we begin to bring the power of awareness and loving attention to each area of our live with the systematic practice of mindfulness. The buddha spoke of cultivating awareness in four fundamental aspects of life that he called the four foundations of mindfulness. These areas of mindfulness are: awareness of the body and senses, awareness of the heart and feelings, awareness of the mind and thoughts, and awareness of the principles that govern life. The development of awareness in these four areas is the basis of all of the buddha's practices of insight and awakening. The power of sustained awareness is always healing and opening, and the ways to extend it to every area of life are taught throughout this program..."

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