Jaded Samsaranian

Inspired by Pema

If you missed Bill Moyer's recent interview with Pema Chodron, you seriously missed out! She is an American Buddhist nun and she pretty much rocks the casbah! I plan to buy at least one book from her, but even listening to her for just about 40 minutes imparted a new attitude in me toward the chaos of life changes. Specifically she spoke about how upheavals in our lives often leave us feeling lost or ungrounded and how we detest that feeling so we grasp at straws to avoid or fill it, yet we miss a lot of the potential that exists in those spaces in our lives. VERY COOL. As an artist who is often timid about putting a paint brush to a blank, white sheet of paper, that attitude is priceless.

posted by Jade @ 11:24 AM