A Buddha Bro blocked me on “X” over the Israel/Palestine conflict. I had assumed we’d be able to dialogue across the polarization. We’re both Buddhist meditation teachers sharing a common lineage, friends, and mentors. We’ve both built online platforms dedicated to raising consciousness and culture. I’m half Jewish and he’s a quarter Palestinian. And we both grew up in the American South learning how to code-switch in a cultural milieu potholed with antisemitism and islamophobia.
BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY FOR MINDFULNESS MEDITATORS | ONLINE WORKSHOP – Sept. 22nd, 2024
| Date: | September 22, 2024 |
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| Time: | 06:00-09:00 p.m. |
| Event: | BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY FOR MINDFULNESS MEDITATORS |
| Topic: | Buddhist Psychology For Mindfulness Meditators |
| Venue: | ONLINE VIA ZOOM |
Have you ever been bothered by something to the point that you recoiled with a feeling of “Oh, shit!”? Then as you settle into an acceptance of what bothers you the internal feeling moves into “Oh, ok.” Then as your acceptance stabilizes, hidden insights about yourself bring the feeling of “Oh, wow!”. Then as the process matures you move into the final, and completely natural stage with a profound feeling of “Oh, thank you!”. This is Shadow Work in a nutshell. (more…)
“Shadow” is quite literally the parts of yourself that want to be lived, but isn’t allowed to. And the bad news is that when your shadow continues to be suppressed, exiled, and not allowed, it is mistakenly seen as a curse. On the other hand, when you access, befriend, and heal the parts of you that want to be lived, this integration then becomes the source of your inner light. It becomes your unique gift to the world.
Shadow Work is the process of re-integrating the disowned aspects of yourself. It is a healing process that begins with developing tolerance towards things that bother you in the world, because often the things that bother us “out there”, are actually unconscious projections from our shadows “in here”. The shadow work process culminates when you are able to fully inhabit the perspective that bothers you, resulting in a profound sense of wholeness.
