Kamala poses a second question we can ask ourselves. She says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n We oftentimes judge ourselves after [reacting]. Then we’re paralyzed again, because we did or said something, it caused a kerfluffle, and now what do we do? Kamala describes equanimity as: spacious, calm, balanced, well-grounded. Embodied, compassionate wisdom. She clarifies that it’s not like balancing on a razor’s edge, but rather like being on the top of a grounded mountain, and you see all sides. She says there is courage, patience, flexibility, perseverance, a sense of agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This spacious balance implies that the heart and mind can be big enough to contain all that life presents. Not just what we prefer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n She then shares one of my favorite poems from Izumi Shikibu (translation by Jane Hirshfield)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watching the moon Guided Meditation<\/em>: Mindful Magazine recently featured an excerpt from Tara Brach’s new book, Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN<\/a><\/em>. The excerpt describes Tara’s RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), and includes text and a link for a guided practice. Feel free to share your reflections or comments below, or by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With warm wishes, Dear Friends, Continuing with the talk from Kamala Masters, “Equanimity-Seeing the World with Quiet Eyes“ Kamala poses a second question we can ask ourselves.How can we stay aware yet compassionate towards ourselves when we do react? She says, We oftentimes judge ourselves after [reacting]. Then we’re paralyzed again, because we did or said something, it caused a kerfluffle,\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":[199],"tags":[159,212,19,8,16],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2020","tag-equanimity","tag-izumi-shikibu","tag-kamala-masters","tag-rain","tag-tara-brach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
How can we stay aware yet compassionate towards ourselves when we do react?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can bring equanimity there also.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n![\"Moon](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200110_005449.jpg?resize=169%2C225&ssl=1\")
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at midnight,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/investigate-anxiety-with-tara-brachs-rain-practice\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"