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    Re: Discuss : Fear and Fearlessness

    Paula, You are so right about that queasy feeling. It always wakes me up to pay attention to what is going on, and usually, it is fear expressing itself as self-protection (self-absorption), or avoidance of the situation. When I am not being reactive, I actually try to use that feeling as a geiger counter...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 03-25-2008
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    Re: Discuss: Self-absorption

    Geri, you mentioned that you wished you could know how the Dalai Lama was responding to events in Tibet. Yesterday I recieved this email, which I will pass along to all in this discussion. The practice of Tonglen which is described here, is clearly a practice for dissolving our self-absorption, and is...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 03-24-2008
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    Discuss : Fear and Fearlessness

    My experience of self-absorption is that it has a tremendous amount to do with my fear of opening up to the huge universe of possiblities. The flip side of that is that when my heart is open to the universe of possiblities, I actually feel joy and not fear! This experience of the choice I have in how...
    Posted to Ruling Your World (Forum) by Gayle Van Gils on 02-29-2008
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