How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships by Meggan Watterson & Lodro Rinzler

Author:Meggan Watterson & Lodro Rinzler
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2015-09-15T06:00:00+00:00

Relationships Are Tough

LODRO

Relationships are tough, man. I had a conversation about relationships the other day with my dear friend Susan Piver. Susan is a Shambhala Buddhist teacher and has written a number of books on this topic, including The Wisdom of a Broken Heart. She posited a basic truth that I have found meshes with my own experience, and Meggan’s. It might mesh with yours, too: relationships are uncomfortable. We sometimes romanticize them, but underlying the good times we had with that past partner there was always some basic discomfort. And if you’re in a relationship right now I bet you’ve experienced some uncomfortable moments there, too.

Let me step back and highlight the first thing the Buddha ever taught: suffering. I have seen numerous translations of the first of the Four Noble Truths that he offered in his initial sermon. The Sanskrit term dukkha has been translated as “suffering,” and often within the context of “Suffering exists,” “Life is suffering,” or “There is suffering”; there are even times I have seen the word suffering swapped out for unsatisfactoriness or anxiety. The Buddha, or Awakened One, was awake to the basic notion that no matter what, there is an undercurrent of suffering that exists. That is the nature of reality. There are three types of suffering the Buddha discussed.

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