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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Inside the Fear Is the Sadness

Going beyond fear begins when we examine our fear: our anxiety, nervousness, concern, and restlessness. If we look into our fear, if we look beneath its veneer, the first thing we find is sadness, beneath the nervousness. Nervousness is cranking up, vibrating, all the time. When we slow down, when we relax with our fear, we find sadness, which is calm and gentle. --Trungpa Rinpoche

1 comment:

  1. Not necessarily and particularly when the current institutional structural boot is well and truly pressing down on one's throat. Particularly when this post is directly under another that scares the living day lights out of me and I live in australia!

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