Sometimes rocking back and forth or even pacing the floor are all I can do to reduce this pain. I am part of Mother Earth in the latter and feel her with every step. Thank you for this video.
I just woke up with the muscle pain that precedes migraine and took Nurtec. It's a very painful problem when it flares up and I can't count the number of times I've said I just can't do it anymore. Thank you for this video, Brother Phap Linh. Back to it
Thank You Brother Phap Linh - I am living and journeying with an illness and this will be a great help to look outside my mortal body and become more part of nature when Im feeling low.
I have for decades lived with the pain inflicted on me by cruel, unfit parents. Therapy has been long and painful, and I have also lovingly embraced Mother Earth and the Universe. However, my pain persists. What, then, am i not doing correctly? It baffles my mind! Thank you for your insightful closure to your lesson, Brother Spirit. I suppose the pain will slowly subside.
I am in the same boat as you. It will never slowly fade, because this is pain that shaped you. you and I are on this journey of persistently embracing and engaging with our own pain and our hurt inner child.
Thank you Brother! It's taken decades of work to be able to sit with it and hold myself enough that I can have the mindfulness to let it in. Just what I needed support with today - thank you!
Thank-you, Brother Phap Linh, for this expansive teaching. It seems an extension of the bit in "Peace Is Every Step" about a piece of dirt in a glass of water and the same dirt in a river. But you made it more real for me. I will definitely experiment with this. My gratitude is immense. 🙏🏼
what do I do though, if my lineage scares me? My grandmothers both had difficult lives, my maternal grandmother was tormented by her husband and attempted suicide as a result. mother had the bones of her face broken by her older brother when she was only a small child, her sister deliberately amputated her thumb when she was even younger; she married my father and he has tormented us all my life - as a result she too attempted suicide and then took out her pain and anger on me. as a result I've also attempted suicide many times, I have the same anger issues. I know this is not the entire point being made, but I am terrified of being whole with the world and my lineage, because I am terrified of them and of what lies inside of me. Can I achieve oneness with the universe in spite of that? I try and then stumble and fail, over and over again. I cannot help but fear and loathe the lineage that has produced me, and so in that I fear and loathe myself
Dear friend, the trees, the sunlight, the sky, the ocean are also our ancestors. In my life, as I go through the impact of abuse, and then the pain, trauma and debt caused by the legal system, I too have found myself contemplating suicide. I try to remind myself to connect to nature because for me it creates a bond of caring and holding, that perhaps I may not yet find in my biological ancestors. If I were to look deeply, I am sure I will also find that my resilience has its roots in the goodness and the wish to be released of suffering, both of my ancestors and those around. Holding you in my prayers. May our breath be a bridge to transforming our pain, one at a time.
@@mirrahsen4325 Thank you, wrote this comment when I was in a lot of pain and looking for release from it. I think sometimes you think you have "escaped" the trauma only for it to catch up with you again. Your words have helped me a lot and in spite of it being difficult, I can only hope that we will continue to find the strength to keep walking forwards in our journey; om ni tuo fuo
I'm sorry the noise of those lives you knew are clattering loudly when you think of your lineage...your respondent replies so well that we must think way back to the trees, earth, stars and the first forms of life, such an innocence about that. Thinking of you.
@@indigorose2607 Thank you. I have been making progress in my practice in my acceptance that these people who have caused me suffering were themselves suffering. Lately I feel more empowered that at least for my own turmoil I have the ability to close this cycle of pain and suffering. I cannot guarantee this will last, but my grief within myself has subsided recently and I have been much happier. Thank you for your kind words
While you face great challenges, please know that you are not alone. Even though we haven't met, I am walking beside you in my own journey. May peace be with you.
