04/07/2025
“Now as we become more conscious, we can see yet more clearly the inevitable contradictions of life, the pain and the suffering, the joys and the beauty, the everchanging play of joys and sorrows that make up human experience.
As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. We do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left with actual problems and contradictions of our life.
A genuine spiritual path does not avoid difficulties or mistakes but leads us to the art of making mistakes wakefully, bringing them to the transformative power of our heart. When we set out to love, to awaken, to become free, we are inevitably confronted with our own limitations and fears, our frailties and confusion. To witness this can be difficult and fear, our frailties and confusion. To witness this can be difficult.
Lama Trungpa Rinpoche described spiritual progress from the ego’s point of view as “one insult after another.”
In this way, our life may appear as a series of mistakes. One could call them problems” or “challenges,” but in some ways “mistakes” is actually described spiritual practice at great ease with the difficulties, mistakes, and errors that we actually meet.” Exert from A Path with Heart.