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Becoming a Buddhist: Two renowned teachers, two stories of transformation

Life Examined

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How to Let in Love

I've heard you say before that most of us have a hard time letting in love. I wonder if you could go a little bit further with that. Yeah it's one of those things that when we start seeing it in ourselves we start really seeing it. We're afraid the parts of ourselves we don't like will be seen and we're afraid we'll get rejected for that. It's safer to protect ourselves from that then get hoodwinked to open up our defenses and let it in  and then get that pain of then being rejected then being found flawed is that resonated for you?

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