{"id":18471,"date":"2024-04-05T07:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/?p=18471"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T17:16:05","slug":"words-of-wisdom-for-april-05-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsangha.org\/words-of-wisdom-for-april-05-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom for April 05, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Changing One’s View<\/span><\/p>\n
For, as the Buddhist view has consistently demonstrated, it is the perspective of the sufferer that determines whether a given experience perpetuates suffering or is a vehicle for awakening. To work something through means to change one’s view; if we try instead to change the emotion, we may achieve some short-term success, but we remain bound by forces of attachment and an aversion to the very feelings from which we are struggling to be free.<\/p>\n
– Mark Epstein, “Shattering the Ridgepole”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n