The majority of us are driven, confused, and blinded by our vulnerabilities, and suffer as a result of this. Yet the very physical, emotional, and spiritual openness that allows things to affect us as they do, can in itself become the vehicle for liberation if properly understood in light of The Four Noble Truths.
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Many of us spend the better part of our lifetime shutting down our awareness of our own body. Yet Buddhism teaches that in order to achieve direct, moment-to-moment awareness of our experience, we need to turn our body into our object of meditation by asking, for example, “What does that emotion, thought or sensation feel like in the body?
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By experiencing the present moment in a direct, clear and vivid way, we are able to transcend our attachment to the world of concepts, ideas, prejudices, judgments, and the emotional states they engender.
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In this world where so much of our activity is directed outward, it can be hard to acknowledge that taking true responsibility for ourselves means going inward and doing the inner work needed to purify our hearts and minds. By doing this profound transformative work, we also learn how to act responsibly within our relationships and the world at large.
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Knowing and examining the direct experience of our own reaction to abusive speech allows us to open up to the suffering that is present in the person who is acting abusively. This in turn gives us the opportunity to break the vicious circle of suffering by responding with compassion.
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