"Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable" - Sogyal Rinpoche

🤲 Acceptance

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain accept your pain and remain vulnerable”

Remaining open and vulnerable to pain is a profound act of acceptance.

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain. Accept your pain and remain vulnerable.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The act of meditation is being spacious and allowing thoughts to dissolve on their own”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Whatever you do dont shut off your pain acknowledge your pain and remain vulnerable”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“In a world dedicated to distraction silence and stillness terrify us”

— Sogyal Rinpoche