Comments on: Figuring it Out – Reflections on a Long Journey

By: Dan Maher

Dan Maher — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:50:10 +0000

Thanks for your story, my wife Pauli and I are just starting out on our journey to compassionate existance. We hope your practice finds its continuance..

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By: Namkha

Namkha — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:53:44 +0000

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this straight talk from the heart. It is a great example and inspiration for us, women and men, on this path of exploration, offering and refining.

By: Beth Patterson

Beth Patterson — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:21:58 +0000

Thank you, Lama Palden, for sharing your path with us. We were contemplating the questions “where is a ‘me first’ attitude useful on the Buddhist path and why” in our Denver Rebel Buddha “book club” last evening. I was struck by your last paragraph in this regard. My personal experience, as well as my experience with my psychotherapy clients, has taught me that the more deeply we allow ourselves to experience our own suffering, the more it allows us to experience compassion for ourselves and for all sentient beings, which then leads to the wisdom of experiencing, in your words, the “lack of separation from the entirety of what is.” May all benefit.