
Radical acceptance and unconditional friendliness
Bob Thurman describes this buddha nature as “realizing that you are everything, experiencing a feeling of oneness, and embracing being one with everything.” The lotus best represents our journey to realizing our buddha nature as the lotus grows through the mud before expressing itself fully as a beautiful flower above ground. For us, we have to work through the murky layers of our mind that tell us various stories, such as “we aren’t good enough.” Tara Brach writes, “when we get lost in our […]
Categories: Meditation, Yoga • Tags: aura glaser, bob thurman, buddha, buddha nature, Buddhism, christopher germer, compassion, inspiration, jack kornfield, mindfulness, robert thurman, Sharon Salzberg, tara brach