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Becoming a Buddhist: Two renowned teachers, two stories of transformation

Life Examined

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The Importance of Accepting Emotions

The Buddha said it's because of visiting forces that we suffer. We're not just trying to make a nice talk you know to ourselves, the awareness is stronger than the visitor and we can also recognize the suffering component as well. It's actually very unselfish to want to be a different person in relationship to what we feel internally and inevitably to those around usbecause of that. When we fall down we have to pick ourselves up or let others help us up we start over again and it's just gonna be that way.

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