Give Up Your Need for Your Family's Understanding and Approbation

If our practice increases the amount of kindness and patience we bring to our family relationships, we can be sure that this is real progress. It's assumed you care about your family relationships and are willing to engage in some give and take and compromise. We all have limitations when it comes to our ability to trust and open up to intimacy. Our family members may never be able to offer us deep emotional connection around the importance of Buddhist practice in our lives.