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 Where do I leave off and where do you begin?  Does for better or worse mean that I be lost to you forever? My attempts to fix you only leave me more broken than before. It is sad for me to see you in pain; to cut, to drink, to lash out in anger and cries of being abandoned.  My surrender will only leave me more dead inside. Where do I leave off and where do you begin? You bargain and lash out in anger to win my love. For you do not know how it could be gone or be lost or turned into something else. And I have no answer that does not but produce more unanswerable questions that lead to more pain and anger, and lashing out to gain my love. Where do I leave off and where do you begin? This is my fault, my doing. Everyone wants it fixed. Afterall, it is what I do. If healing you means that I become my own disease, that would be fitting;  that would be right? For no greater love is this:  that a man lay his life down for his friends? Where do I leave of...

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"Spring comes with flowers,  autumn with the moon,  summer with the breeze,  winter with snow.   When idle concerns  don't fill your thoughts,  that's your best season." -   Wu-Men

According to Pema Chödrön, we might think that knowing ourselves is a very ego-centered thing, but by beginning to look clearly and honestly at ourselves, we begin to dissolve the walls that separate us from others. The journey of awakening happens just at the place where we can't get comfortable. Opening to discomfort is the basis of transmuting our so-called "negative" feelings. We somehow want to get rid of our uncomfortable feelings either by justifying them or by squelching them, but it turns out that this is like throwing the baby out with the bath water. According to the teachings of vajrayana, or tantric, Buddhism, our wisdom and our confusion are so interwoven that it doesn't work to just throw things out. By trying to get rid of "negativity," by trying to eradicate it, by putting it into a column labelled "bad," we are throwing away our wisdom as well, because everything in us is creative energy—particularly our strong emotions. They...

After leaving the Emerald City seeking to obtain the broomstick of the wicked witch per the wizard's request, Dorothy's friends decide that it would be best to arm themselves. The Tin Man has an axe, the Lion brings a canister of pesticide and the Scarecrow pulls out a gun.  Fear of what they might find propels their effort to gain  props to aid in warding off their fear. They anxiously proceed fearful of what they expect to encounter and thus they armed themselves with whatever they could find. Our minds will often react just as Dorothy's trio did so the moment in the story passes quickly without little notice. We, like them, arm ourselves and nervously look forward and backward trying to guess what might be coming next when times are trying, tough and unpredictable.  Lions, and Tigers and Bears! Oh my! But this is not the way. This is not our practice. What? You didn't notice that the Scarecrow carried a gun? After the flying monkeys carried Dorothy a...