{"id":117,"date":"2016-01-29T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=117"},"modified":"2021-02-11T20:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:21:21","slug":"2016-01-29-light-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2016-01-29-light-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"January 29 – light RAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friends,<\/p>\n

From Shantideva, an eighth-century Buddhist master:<\/p>\n

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There’s nothing that does not grow light
\nThrough habit and familiarity.
\nPutting up with little cares
\nI’ll train myself to bear with great adversity.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In chapter 5 of True Refuge, Tara Brach suggests a way of dealing with these “little cares” through a process she calls “light RAIN” – a way you can practice this during the day, in just a minute or two.<\/p>\n

Briefly, the steps are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Recognize<\/strong> emotional reactivity<\/li>\n
  2. Pause by taking three full breaths, and Allow<\/strong> your inner experience to be as it is<\/li>\n
  3. Investigate<\/strong> with kindness whatever feelings are most predominant<\/li>\n
  4. Resume activity, and notice if there is more Natural<\/strong> presence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can read a summary of the practice here:
    \nhttps:\/\/www.nicabm.com\/finding-true-refuge-with-tara-brach\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    The light RAIN practice gives us opportunities to work with the little cares in the day, and then, as Shantideva suggests, we’ll be better prepared to bear greater challenges.<\/p>\n

    With best wishes,
    \nAndrea G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dear Friends, From Shantideva, an eighth-century Buddhist master: There’s nothing that does not grow light Through habit and familiarity. Putting up with little cares I’ll train myself to bear with great adversity. In chapter 5 of True Refuge, Tara Brach suggests a way of dealing with these “little cares” through a process she calls “light RAIN” – a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,8,15,16],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2016","tag-hindrances","tag-rain","tag-shantideva","tag-tara-brach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}