The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness

Well and the one I was thinking about and the one we use in our course is the wisdom of no escape which is kind of an interesting original book but there's a teaching that you might have been exposed to it's called Shen Pa in the Tibetan tradition Shen Pa have you ever heard about that

When Things Fall Apart, welcoming the unwelcome and the wisdom of no escape.

When things fall apart, welcoming the unwelcome, comfortable with uncertainty, the wisdom of no escape.

And he flashed a paperback book at me. I came into his room, and he said, hey, I was just in a bookstore, and I saw this book, and I thought of you, so I bought it. And he said, I don't know who this woman is, and I don't know what this book is about, but the title.

And he held it up, and it was a book that's now very, very well known. At the time, it wasn't Pema Chodron's book, The Wisdom of No Escape.

And he said, you get to sit with us. We're just going to sit with this as long as we need to. There is wisdom. There is wisdom in not trying to escape it. Be with it, but be with it as openly as you can, and trust that some things will shift.