Attachment – unfiltered from the heart

letting go to hold

it can be a challenge sometimes to let go of what we want. having the faith that if something is meant to be that it will, can be so hard for me. just last week, i was prone lying to release the very thing i desired. had to walk through a tempest that set meContinue reading “letting go to hold”

Three Days Ago

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ― Anaïs Nin Three days ago, I let you go… For a moment maybe a few hours at least, I felt free. And then… The seed of emptiness that was planted in yesterdays,Continue reading “Three Days Ago”

Relationships: Where (I believe) we so often go wrong & how we can choose differently

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” H.P Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature Quite simply, we often go wrong in relationships when we enter into them out of fear. We fear being alone, so we search for someone we can feelContinue reading “Relationships: Where (I believe) we so often go wrong & how we can choose differently”

May we be free of this: Tonglen Meditation

Freedom. Freedom from pain. Freedom from suffering. Freedom from that which no longer serves. Freedom from attachment. Freedom to be ourselves. Freedom to be. Can you guess what my “word of the year” might be? I’ll give you three chances and only the first one is right… Yes, it is freedom. After seeing The Elephant Journal article about TonglenContinue reading “May we be free of this: Tonglen Meditation”

Shadows of Death

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I shall fear no evil. – Psalm 23 In Buddhism, Shiva, the creator and the destroyer, represents the process of breaking down that needs to occur prior to being able to build back up. Nature is filled with examples of this idea of deathContinue reading “Shadows of Death”