Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

#SharonSalzberg bridges ancient wisdom and modern science for mental health #meditation

2 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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YouTube video (Fleet Maull upload) featuring Sharon Salzberg teaching meditation approaches to fear and difficult emotions. Salzberg emphasizes meeting fear with awareness and strength, using Tibetan-practice metaphors ("approach it, shake its hand", "invite the fear into dinner") and reassuring that awareness and essential qualities are stronger than transient emotional states.

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He calls those states our beautiful monsters. And he said, approach it. Shake its hand. Like it. It's everything, really. We've been saying, like you, your awareness is stronger, actually, than this state. The state is just visiting. It may be really intense, you may visit a lot, but it's still just visiting. You can be there. And as you know, like a very vast oversimplification of another Tibetan practice would be invite the fear into dinner. You know, don't let it have the run of the house, because that's dangerous. But you don't have to be so freaked out. You don't have to be so ashamed of what you're feeling. You. You are stronger. Your awareness, your essential qualities are stronger than. Than the fear. And so.