The best instruction I’ve ever heard on the spiritual path is to stay. Stay with that feeling of anxiety, of fear. Stay with the discomfort of embarrassment or humiliation. Stay with your anger, don’t hold onto it, but stay with it. Instead of running away as we always do, or reaching for something, anything, to ease our pain in that moment, stay. Stay nailed right to the spot.
Staying doesn’t mean getting consumed by it. It means immersing yourself in it with awareness. Perhaps you’ll find that your feeling starts to dissolve around your awareness, or perhaps not. The thing is, you’ll only find out by starting to stay.
The best instruction I’ve ever heard on the spiritual path is to stay. Stay with that feeling of anxiety, of fear. Stay with the discomfort of embarrassment or humiliation. Stay with your anger, don’t hold onto it, but stay with it. Instead of running away as we always do, or reaching for something, anything, to ease our pain in that moment, stay. Stay nailed right to the spot.
ReplyDeleteStaying doesn’t mean getting consumed by it. It means immersing yourself in it with awareness. Perhaps you’ll find that your feeling starts to dissolve around your awareness, or perhaps not. The thing is, you’ll only find out by starting to stay.