Fundamentally, experiencing openness is having trust in the living quality of basic energy. We develop the confidence to allow it to arise, to linger and then to pass on. This energy is dynamic, ungraspable, always in a state of flux. So our training is, first of all, noticing how we block energy or freeze it, how we tense up our bodies and our minds. Then we train in softening, relaxing and opening to the energy without interpretation or judgment.


 Pema ChodronAwakening the Heart