Thirty Thousand Days - Fall 2013 Vol 18 No. 1 | Page 5
going to burst unless I express my opinion. But so far, that
hasn’t happened.
Pema Chodron, the Buddhist meditation teacher, says
one of the best practices in everyday life, when we’re not
meditating, is to notice our opinions. And when we’re in a
conversation with someone, or even reading the news, and
we notice the energy that arises with our strong, committed
opinion about some topic, what do we do?
“We can just let those opinions go, and come back to
the immediacy of our experience. We can come back to
looking at someone’s face in front of us, to tasting our
coffee, to brushing our teeth, to whatever we might be
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