Mel’s Reviews > Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion > Status Update

"The futility of the samsara. Samsara is preferring death to life. It comes from always trying to create safety zones. We get stuck here because we cling to a funny little identity that gives us some kind of security, painful though it may be. The fourth reminder is to remember the futility of this strategy."

"[Refraining is] the quality of not grabbing for entertainment the minute we feel a slight edge of boredom coming on. It's the practice of not immediately filling up space just because there's a gap." Oof. Something to work on.