NOT to cower, trembling in a corner, hoping to hide from the specter of pain.
Pain is as inevitable as the darkness of night, after every day.
So let us keep this in mind and love with courageous abandon as if our hearts had never been broken, as if that is what we were born to do for it most certainly is.
The Thursday series of weekly webinars will only be offered once every year.
A true apology requires the love to tend to another’s emotions and
the courage to allow ourselves to feel the pain of
vulnerability, guilt, and shame with a dash of humiliation.
No we do not apologize to make ourselves feel better,
but to make the person that we are addressing, feel better.
Let us never
• justify,
• minimize or
• rationalize
our actions that cause another pain.
Rather lets us enthusiastically express both regret for the suffering we generated
as well as resolve to err no more.
A true apology means that we’re really putting our comfort out there
and meeting the needs of another.
Does even the most gut wrenching apology guarantee
that the offended party will take the high road?
No, they may be cruel, petty and vindictive.
Then why, why should we put ourselves out there?
Because spiritual evolution demands
that we meet the needs of others…
especially when it’s inconvenient.
The Wednesday series of webinars begins in just 2 weeks.
Have you seen the new trailer for “Scott Pilgrim Vs the World?”
What a hoot! And it seems to paint a fairly accurate portrait of the male psyche.
Hey girls ask a man, any man, if he’d rather face 7 “super villains” all the while getting battered and bruised, or be rebuffed in conversation by a beautiful girl who’s caught his fancy. The answer will be unanimous – bring on the super beating!
Why is this? Are men masochists who simply can not fall asleep, come end of day, without at least one contusion? No, not so much!
Men are stronger and faster then woman, but to balance things out we are designed to be profoundly vulnerable to their, actions, emotions and tears, no less words.
Physical pain can be harsh, but in time it fades. However emotional pain can be replayed and replayed over and over again like Satan’s gag reel.
Come let us use Buddha’s teachings to tame any pain in 9 minuets or less.
The Wednesday series of webinars begins in just 3 weeks.
NOT to cower, trembling in a corner, 
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