You Can Pick All the Flowers, but Can't Stop the Spring

The point of spiritual practice isn't, again, a grim duty, although there are difficult things to go through at times. And no matter what the tragedies of the world, there is also a force of life that we can aline ourselves with that changes everything. When we first would say and teach people, forty years ago in the west, tobe mindful m in a stricter way. That kind of, you know, little heavy handed, we learned very quickly that people would use the mindfulness to judge themselves. So pretty soon and clearly, we bgan to really wed the teaching of mindfulness with loving kindness and compassion,. What ramdas likes to call loving aware.