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Thought for Sunday on Being Vulnerable (read in Eng,Sp,Fr,Ger,It)

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As a Buddhist, learning to trust the new you, after experiencing a lifetime of mistrust and anger, will produce sensations that some call a bad word: vulnerable. This is not dangerous to actually touch the new inner/outer environment with a tenderness that you need to emerge into and inhabit, by relaxing. On the other hand, most people damaged by poor relationships in the past, will experience vulnerability and just want to pull in and lock down. They do not want to emerge, opening and revealing themselves, in order to continue learning and evolving. If this describes you, for the benefit of your future, please discover a new way of looking at this, be happy in this fresh feeling, and stop applying negativity that will reverse your progress. Instead, see that feeling as a sign of development using a positive attitude with your newly acquired Buddhist perceptions of changing to a higher functioning way of being. New feelings of (seeming) vulnerability are the baby steps of a beautiful e...

Trust issues and Buddhism

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The more we nurture our trust issues, the worse they become, infecting new relationships or not allowing them. Mistrust will never heal trust issues. We need to think about it in a different way. Buddhist dharma contains the healing remedy in the form of refuge, so that we can feel safe wherever we go. Refuge in the perfected awakened Buddha will stabilize the shakiness of that inner anger that makes us suspicious of others before we even get to know them. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Je mehr wir unseren Vertrauensproblemen Nahrung geben, um so schlimmer werden sie; sie infizieren neue Beziehungen oder verhindern sie. Durch Misstrauen werden Vertrauensproblem niemals geheilt. Wir müssen auf neue Weise darüber nachdenken. Das buddhistische Dharma enthält die heilende Medizin in Form der Zuflucht, so dass wir uns sicher fühlen können, egal wo wir auch sind. Die Zufluchtnahme zum vollkommenen, erwachten Buddha wird die Schwankungen des inneren Ärgers stabilis...