The Power of Knowing What Is Going on With Us

The moment of disappointment in life is an incomparable gift that will receive many times a day if we are alert. The Zen teacher Charlotte Jocobek said, when we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the precepts. Staying with anger or anxiety wasn't so much a technique for dealing with emotion as a way of seeing emotion itself,. Not as obstacles on the path to be worked through and removed, but as the path itself.