Guardians at the Gate: Befriending Fear and Pain
November 29, 2023
dialogue
Love as the Practice Itself
El amor como la práctica en sí misma
A student pushes back on the teacher's framing of love as a "lesser" practice, arguing that the patient, friendly return to what is difficult is the whole path.
Love as the Practice Itself
A student pushes back on the teacher's framing of love as a "lesser" practice, arguing that the patient, friendly return to what is difficult is the whole path.
You mentioned "lesser" challenges or practices, and one of them was love. If it's love, I don't quite agree that it's lesser. I think that is the whole practice. The friendship you were talking about, where you come close to something that has too much fear and pain in it, and you just can't handle it, so you keep coming back to it again and again. That's the friendship, right? I don't think that's a lesser path.
Yeah.