Giving Up Hope💜

“In Tibetan, there’s an interesting word: ye tang che. The ye part means ‘totally and completely,’ and the rest of it means ‘exhausted.’ Altogether, ye tang che means ‘totally tired out.’

It describes an experience of complete hopelessness, of completely giving up.

This is an important point. This is the beginning of the beginning.

**Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.**

Believing in a solid, separate self, continuing to seek pleasure and avoid pain, thinking that someone ‘out there’ is to blame for our pain—one has to give up hope that this way of thinking will ever give us satisfaction. Suffering begins to dissolve when we question the belief or hope that there’s anywhere to hide.

Trying to get lasting security teaches us a lot because if we never try to do it, we never notice it can’t be done.” ~Pema Chodron

(I posted this from my Insta writing page; winter is the time where I turn inward, read a ton, sleep a ton, get chubby, and hibernate. I’m basically a bear who likes Buddhism🤷🏻‍♀️)