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Once I was changing jobs and houses at the same time. Felt insecure, uncertain, and groundless. He looked at me and Blankley said “ we are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.” are natural tendencies to seek security. We experience impermanence as frustration use our daily activity as a shield to ward off impermanence set free from this limited way of relating.

Buddha points out what we struggle against all our lives can be acknowledged as ordinary human experience. Nothing is static. Moods are continuously shifting. Not in control of thoughts or emotions, nor cannot halt their flow. Stillness followed by movement, movement back to stillness. Even persistent pain changes overtime. Impermanence, ego, illness, and suffering are all characteristics of every human existence.

Our usual reaction is not to become curious about what’s happening, but just to blindly reach for something familiar that we associate with relief and then wonder why we stay dissatisfied. The radical approach of bodichita practice is to pay attention to what we do. Without judging it, we training, kindly acknowledging whatever is going on. Eventually, we might decide to stop hurting ourselves in the same old ways

This book should have a different title.

Egolessness, in simple terms, is having a flexible identity. Suffering can come from an attachment to an identity.

“Never underestimate the inclination to bolt when we hurt”