{"id":8325,"date":"2024-03-05T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2024-03-05T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T15:12:00","slug":"turning-toward-whats-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8325","title":{"rendered":"Turning Toward What&#8217;s Difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a podcast of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/tsultrim-allione-turning-towards-whats-difficult\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tami Simon interviewing Tsultrim Allione<\/a>, who started a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, and did a lot of work to bring the feminine into Buddhism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She talked about facing and incorporating the bad, a practice described as letting the demon eat you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She described what she did when her husband died, which was to think of all the people who had lost someone they loved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I realize that\u2019s something I already do when I am feeling pain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thinking that I&#8217;m not the only one, that there are other people who feel as bad as I do or worse, really helps me not feel so alone with it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think this is exactly what is meant by &#8220;letting the demon eat you.&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0I think that&#8217;s a more complete surrender to the pain, which I think I have been able to do with emotional pain, but not with physical pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am beginning to feel really comforted by people like her and Thomas H\u00fcbl.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>They describe a world that is much bigger than the one that most people live in, a world I certainly am not really in touch with.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But I find their knowledge of it convincing, so I trust that it is real, and just that is comforting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to a podcast of\u00a0Tami Simon interviewing Tsultrim Allione, who started a Buddhist retreat center in Colorado, and did a lot of work to bring the feminine into Buddhism.\u00a0 She talked about facing and incorporating the bad, a practice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=8325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-present-day","category-spirit","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}