Uncertainty

Classroom Talk: 5/28/2003 - One of the things that makes uncertainty hard to bear is the fear that always seems to come with it, like hard rains we expect will fall from heavy clouds. But such fear is neither a natural nor necessary part of uncertainty, and this you can prove to yourself. Learn to watch how one's own agitated imagination produces the very storm it fears may come. To catch and cancel this self-produced nightmare is to reclaim your...

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2002 - We know the disturbance of desire, as in the pain of when we don't want what life brings. But what we are not conscious of is the disturbance in the pleasure of wanting what we don't have! When we see that the disturbance of pain and the disturbance of pleasure have the same root and only seemingly different fruits, then our nature will begin its transformation.