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Everyday Buddhism 57 - Dharma for Trauma
Everyday Buddhism 57 - Dharma for Trauma
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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Apr 15, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
It seems, sometimes, that when Buddhist and other religious teachers, and serious practitioners get deeper into practice, the more they seem capable of deluding themselves—either in a performative way, posing and positioning for others, or because they have completely deluded themselves about what is really happening within them. They hide their humanness behind the beauty and strength of their words, or their teacher's words, and they hide their brokenness. They hide so well they begin to believe they aren't broken. In this episode, I talk about my brokenness and about how, like the Japanese art of kintsugi, expressing the philosophy of wabi-sabi, we must embrace the flawed and imperfect to honor our whole self—in all its brokenness—rather than hide what is broken. We need to illuminate those broken parts.
Released:
Apr 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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