Waking Up and Growing Up

person

I liked this one.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-deal-with-difficult-emotions-difficult-feedback/id1087147821?i=1000703709070
Diane Musho Hamilton, author and Zen teacher. She talks about something akin to spiritual bypassing. My take is something along the lines of devoted spiritual seekers over the centuries have removed themselves from society to pursue waking up, and necessarily so to reach such refined states. Living in the world involves dealing with other people and requires some sort of emotional maturity to do skillfully. I think I've very unconsciously made some efforts in that direction as I abandoned the idea of traditional renunciation, but maybe now that I've heard it framed in this manner can feel comfortable making more conscious efforts.

I think also what spoke to me is the way it was presented in this discussion at least, I found it fairly digestible. I'm much more practical and stoic than idealistic and sentimental, and I feel like much of emotional work gets framed in the latter more than the former manner.

RobinH

You know, someone once told me that the best place to be a child in is the countryside, the best place to spend one's teenage and young adult years is the city and where one should grow old is about in the middle: in a small town. I think, to some length, that has some spiritual message too. From the peaceful, quiet transitioning to the loud, exciting world of today and perhaps as a fruit of disillusionment, but not with hate, to settle down between the extremes.