working on compassion.

[silverweb]

8. Perfect.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That perspective is a huge help. The trick, of course, will be remembering it in times of stress, when it's needed most.



PS - HA!! My very next click (in another window) after posting the above opened this:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=this-is-your-brain-in-meltdown&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20120409
Too bad I don't have a subscription to read the whole article--but could there be just a little synchronicity going on here?

Now the question is how to abort the paralysis, and maintain equanimity, love, and compassion under stress -- and thus we arrive back at our practice of mindfulness and meditation. I think an image of an ouroboros encircling a lotus would be quite appropriate here. Unfortunately, nobody has made one yet that I can find.