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Blunt Suffering

With Gregory Kramer recorded on April 29, 2018.

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Let’s not flinch when we look at the lived experiences of illness, confusion, and relational pain. Let’s allow the texture of hurt to be known. Awareness remains brilliant, for sure. Any of us can experience this. Maybe the more we allow the blunt pain of the body-mind, the more we can sit squarely in awareness. Things are just like this, aren’t they?

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