Sangha of Auspicious Companions

SEIZE THE VULNERABLE MOMENT

Without realizing it, we continually put up protective walls made of opinions, prejudices, and strategies, barriers that are built on a deep fear of being hurt. These walls are further fortified by emotions of all kinds: anger, craving, indifference, jealousy, and arrogance.

But fortunately for us, the soft spotour innate ability to love and to care about thingsis like a crack in these walls we erect. Its a natural opening in the barriers we create when were afraid. With practice we can learn to find this opening. We can learn to seize that vulnerable momentlove, gratitude, loneliness, embarrassment, inadequacyto awaken bodhichitta.