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May 3, 2025 at 10:46 am #445343
Yana
ParticipantIn gratitude and compassion, I bow down and transmit my energy to those I love.
All the energy I have received I now want to transmit to everyone I love, and all who have suffered and worried because of me and for my sake. I know I have not been mindful enough in my daily life. I also know that those who love me have had their own difficulties. They have suffered because they were not lucky enough to have an environment that encouraged their full development. […] I want all of them to be healthy and joyful. I pray that all ancestors in my blood and spiritual families will focus their energies toward each of them, to protect and support them. I am one with those I love.In understanding and compassion, I bow down to reconcile myself with all those who have made me suffer.
I open my heart and send forth my energy of love and understanding to everyone who has made me suffer, to those who have destroyed much of my life and the lives of those I love. I know now that these people have themselves undergone a lot of suffering and that their hearts are overloaded with pain, anger, and hatred. […] I pray that they can be transformed to experience the joy of living, so that they will not continue to make themselves and others suffer. I see their suffering and do not want to hold any feelings of hatred or anger in myself toward them. I do not want them to suffer. I channel my energy of love and understanding to them and ask all my ancestors to help them.🤗
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May 3, 2025 at 9:31 am #445341Yana
ParticipantHello Alessa,
You wrote:
“I think a lot of people are afraid of being judged or told that they are doing things wrong.”
But… isn’t it a good thing to be told we are wrong? It can help us to learn.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:11 am #445301Yana
ParticipantHello Roberta,
thank you for giving me food for thought for the weekend.
I would like to think about your words and the teachings of Right Speech more.
When I was an older teen, a very good friend of mine told me: “You are disgusting when you drink.” It went through me like a knife right into my heart. It was harsh…a harsh reality check. I don’t remember my feelings exactly anymore, but I am sure that I was offended. What I do remember is that it was one of the first eye-opening moments when I realized that not only was I too often intoxicated, but also turning toxic… hurting people I liked… and it made me to reach for help.
He wasn’t kind… in words… but he actually helped me a lot.
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May 1, 2025 at 9:43 pm #445299Yana
ParticipantI spent my holiday in a location with heavy industry. Coal used to be mined there for a long time. The nature was completely decimated in that part of the area. It used to be a terrible sight to see… those bare fields of black earth… But today, just a few years after the mining stopped, everything there is beautifully green again.
I like how nature can cope with suffering… It’s literally wiped out. But still, it appears… a tiny leaf here and there… and in a few years, a beautiful dense forest. The resilience of plants, especially trees, is fascinating.
When we had to fell one of the apple trees in our garden, we found out that its trunk was literally eaten inside by ants. They used the apple tree as their home. I might sound stupid, but I was thinking… Was it painful for the tree? Are trees able to detect pain? I mean, they don’t have a brain, but there are many chemical processes going on inside trees, too.
I think she (the apple tree) made a perfect home for the ants. In my language, we assign grammatical gender to things and to the trees, of course, too… for example, an apple tree, a birch or a willow are women… and a spruce or an oak are men… And you can tell the difference… look at a willow how feminine it is with its thin branches swaying in the wind, and then look at an oak… what a big, sturdy man!
But in English there are playful games with language, too. I sometimes watch videos by Reflections of Life on youtube and I remember a nice quote from one of these videos…
I am not a ‘self’. I am an… ‘exploring’.
I really liked that idea and smiled when I heard it. … I am exploring… a little explorer of life… nature, people, feelings, emotions good and bad, tender and harsh… that’s the joy of life for me….observing, exploring, accepting, but not identifying… “I am more than suffering. I am more than one emotion.” (Hanh)
Maybe the apple tree was in a lot of pain… but she served as a refuge for the ants. She is a beautiful example of the art of suffering… I often think that we are unfortunate that we do have the brain, because it makes our life more complicated … judging, blaming, regretting, … but it gives us a freedom which a tree doesn’t have and that is the ablity to decide… decide to accept, decide to NOT identify with this or that, decide to change, decide to move on.. decide to be happy…
Thank you apple tree! 🍎 🤗
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May 1, 2025 at 9:33 pm #445298Yana
ParticipantHello Alessa,
yes 😊 it’s spot on, actually! … we learn by doing… only then we can really understand.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:53 am #445175Yana
ParticipantHello Alessa, I’ll write to you more when I am back. 😊
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April 28, 2025 at 5:53 am #445174Yana
ParticipantI am leaving today for a holiday, so I wanted to leave a note here before I am offline for quite a long time.
Anita, I believe that it would be the best for both of us to not continue communicating together.
What I would like to emphasize is that it’s not meant to be bad at all. I think that the two of us are so different on the spectrum of thinking – feelings that we’ll just keep going in the circle of misunderstanding. I wish we could part on good terms. 🙏 😊
I don’t see it as bad. Quite the opposite. It’s proof that when people don’t understand each other internally, they’re just too different, so it’s perfectly fine to break up on good terms and let each other go. ❤️
Also, we both have completely different interests in this forum. After reaching my internal validation, I am looking more for friends, I want to be close to real people with similar hobbies… nature, buddhism, peace, love… just common things in our lives… You need a lot of intellectual conversation, analysing… you know very well that I don’t agree with it, as I see that as a form of running away. Too big difference in interest, thinking between us…
It was a pleasure to meet you. I’ve never met anyone like you. However, I don’t like going in circles, I don’t like repeating the same harmful patterns… and my heart tells me that I just need to let you go to step out… It is really meant with love, understanding and peace.
I am sending lots of ❤️ ☀️ on your path of healing. Let’s part on good terms and go our seperate ways.
You don’t have to answer. I am satisfied with peaceful silence. 🙂 👋
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April 27, 2025 at 6:45 am #445161Yana
ParticipantI will be offline for longer time – it is a holiday here.
Sending 😙 🍀
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April 27, 2025 at 1:45 am #445157Yana
ParticipantI will never allow my past and childhood to define me and destroy my relationships with my family. ❤️ We are here and now. 🙂
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April 27, 2025 at 1:42 am #445156Yana
ParticipantI would like to share a similar experience… Yesterday we went to visit my mom in a rehabilitation hospital. She had hip surgery. And we walked through the park and tried to identify different flowers and bushes, listened to the birds… and it was really nice. When she is in this mood thanks to nature… cheerful, relaxed, reflective… she is more open to talking about tough topics… and she gets genuine. And this helps me understand that she loves us all very much… but it used to be just too hard to have so much on her shoulders when we were kids. ❤️
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April 27, 2025 at 1:22 am #445155Yana
ParticipantHello Alessa,
I really like how you enjoy parenthood and see your role as a mom as a way to learn and grow. ❤️ I wish all parents could do that. Some parents have a child and feel like all their responsibilities end there. Other parents feel like they own the child and project their dreams onto them. Sometimes it seems to me as if no one understands what it really means to be a parent… it’s only written about in magazines and books, but who actually understands it in practical life?
And that is the problem with knowledge. It is not enough to know… it must be put in practice. If you know what I mean. It applies to all parts of our lives – being a partner, a parent, mental health, spirituality, work, …
I like that we can practice the positive self-talk with animals, too. 🐈
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April 26, 2025 at 11:55 pm #445154Yana
ParticipantThis is meant with complete sincerity and peace of mind. 🪷 🙂 I am absolutely calm and peaceful.
I think honesty is very needed here. Honesty is more important than polite phrases or analyses. We cannot move on and heal without honesty. ❤️
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April 26, 2025 at 11:38 pm #445153Yana
ParticipantNo, Anita, I am not interested in analyses. If you are not interested in real people and genuine conversation, we should move on independently. I think that you didn’t understand anything from what I wrote a few weeks ago.
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April 26, 2025 at 10:20 pm #445151Yana
ParticipantIt is a sad feeling in me that you really don’t want to heal. You resist to step out of your comfort zone – overthinking, analyzing – and feel real emotions, be with them without running away by never ending circle of intellectualizing and reach real peace. I feel that you run away here on tinybuddha from the real problems and feelings, trying to get sure that everyone feels like that… and that’s why your analysis isn’t very often objective because you tend to project yourself in it. It is hard to read how much you actually don’t want a change…
But we must let people go their own path…
Maybe one day… one lifetime…
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April 25, 2025 at 9:43 pm #445140Yana
ParticipantHello Anita,
I have rich experience with embracing pain and accepting negative emotions. EFT is all about it! You spent so much time and energy with deep raw painful emotions when you heal with EFT. And some emotions took me years to accept and finally let go.😊 🕊 And Buddhism too. It is actually the core of Zen Buddhism (Hanh) to stay with your strong emotions peacefully, embracing them and tell them: “Hello, I am here with you. I will take care of you.” ❤ The work with inner child (it was mentioned in the article) is very often emphasized by Hanh, too. I’ve done a lot of progress with mindfulness and meditation and when I look at little Jana in my head, I see her smiling… small, vulnerable, but smiling… no more shame for being vulnerable… slowly accepting vulnerability as my strength… and she sits on the grass with joy and happy face. I saw myself sitting depressed trying to hide, face down a few weeks ago…
I think it is possible to enjoy negative emotions when we accept them but we don’t identify with them… Buddhism helped me a lot with this.
I’m on my phone. I can write more later.
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