Fortunately, many subscription services, such as Spotify, offer student discounts and bonuses. Listen to the full episode at the link in our bio or search â€œTricycle Talksâ€ on Spotify, iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, and iHeartRadio.Paying subscription fees on top of tuition and other expenses isn’t fun for a student. Being with your mother in the midst of her sadness is one of the aspects of joy, I think.â€ Being with that sadness, to me, well, thatâ€™s called joy. And it was so difficult to be with her in the midst of that sadness. My motherâ€™s partner of 35 years had died recently, and she was really sad. But the thing that I noticed was that in my body, I was having the same exact feeling that I would have when I would go to visit my mother.

I donâ€™t know that I would have noticed it without the lessons from that class, actually. â€œIâ€™m sad.â€ But I couldnâ€™t bear to look at it. It was like someone saying theyâ€™re sad. It was not like someone having a finger cut off. And she said, â€œWell, it made me sad.â€ I canâ€™t remember exactly what she was talking about, maybe something to do with her son or something like that.Īs that was going on in this class of about 30 people there across the circle from me, I realized that I literally couldnâ€™t watch. The teacher said, â€œWell, why not? Are you OK to talk about it?â€ in that very good teacherly way. The teacher asked, â€œHowâ€™d it feel?â€ One of the students in the class said she didnâ€™t like it. We were just doing a body scan meditation.

One of the teachings that feels like a life-changing teaching was actually at a mindfulness class at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. I spent a lot of time struggling on account of trying to hold back and push away sorrow or isolate myself from my sorrow, which is also, I think, a way of isolating myself from other people. Â€œI spent a lot of time fighting to avoid my sorrow. In this new episode of Life As It Is, Tricycleâ€™s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, and co-host sit down with Ross Gay to talk about finding joy in the midst of grief and sorrow, the dangers of believing ourselves to be self-sufficient, and how joy can dissolve the boundaries between us.

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