Creating Spaciousness
by mnobleza
This post has taken a while to write. And in that way in which Life provides the curriculum, I feel like it took going through the past few days to really fully appreciate the focus of this particular blog post: creating spaciousness in one’s life.
Pema Chodron does a really great job of talking about how we need to create a sense of spaciousness to see that the craziness in our minds is small compared to the natural space and balance that already exists before our thoughts, problems, and emotions fill up our mind.
What I have gotten from the past few days is that, even if spaciousness is the natural state of our minds, it does take conscious effort to return to that space. We can’t just assume that we can sit in meditation for an indefinite period of time or adopt a positive attitude towards our circumstances and expect that spaciousness will just automatically emerge.
It is in being conscious in our seeking and returning to the mind’s natural state of spaciousness that we realize that state. …
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