Comments on: So I have this friend… http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/2008/09/so-i-have-this-friend/ Buddhism is a contact sport. I fight with cushions. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: noreply@blogger.com (Barry) http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/2008/09/so-i-have-this-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-35 noreply@blogger.com (Barry) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:50:00 +0000 http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/?p=99#comment-35 Well, that's amazing! As I wrote the other day on my blog, dukkha means that we're all broken.<BR/><BR/>Barry Well, that’s amazing! As I wrote the other day on my blog, dukkha means that we’re all broken.

Barry

]]> By: noreply@blogger.com (TMcG) http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/2008/09/so-i-have-this-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-36 noreply@blogger.com (TMcG) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:53:00 +0000 http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/?p=99#comment-36 Such a good point and actually that is what ended up happening. <BR/><BR/>I became quite vulnerable in a discussion group and really opened up to how essentially messed up I can be at times. (I have the projection that this person thinks I'm a strict student of the dharma who goes 'by the book', without any evaluation of the teachings.) I can only hope that my admission of 'messedup-ed-ness' helped to see that I'm really no different from them as they are no different from me. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment! Such a good point and actually that is what ended up happening.

I became quite vulnerable in a discussion group and really opened up to how essentially messed up I can be at times. (I have the projection that this person thinks I’m a strict student of the dharma who goes ‘by the book’, without any evaluation of the teachings.) I can only hope that my admission of ‘messedup-ed-ness’ helped to see that I’m really no different from them as they are no different from me.

Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: noreply@blogger.com (Barry) http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/2008/09/so-i-have-this-friend/comment-page-1/#comment-37 noreply@blogger.com (Barry) Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:11:00 +0000 http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/?p=99#comment-37 I'm your friend. Most of the time I'm stuck on what's comfortable, easy, and familiar. <BR/><BR/>I become a bodhisattva only in those rare moments when I take the risk to reveal my own stuck-ness to those I care about. <BR/><BR/>All I have to offer is my own work, as it appears in the moment. <BR/><BR/>Maybe if you expose your own stuck nature to your friend, she/he will experience an opening of their own. Bodhisattvas can't do anything by themselves! I’m your friend. Most of the time I’m stuck on what’s comfortable, easy, and familiar.

I become a bodhisattva only in those rare moments when I take the risk to reveal my own stuck-ness to those I care about.

All I have to offer is my own work, as it appears in the moment.

Maybe if you expose your own stuck nature to your friend, she/he will experience an opening of their own. Bodhisattvas can’t do anything by themselves!

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