Dharma teachings can be extremely simple, quite profound, and/or anything in-between. (Often they are all of these, simultaneously.)
In hearing these teachings, full of empowering perspectives and insights, people often think or say to themselves something like: “Makes sense” . . . “Sounds good” . . . “But it’s so hard to do” . . . “I just can’t”
It’s almost as though people find comfort in saying “I can’t” . . . an expression of familiar hesitation . . . comfortable in a way . . . mindless . . . non-committal . . . lazy.
Recognize the “I can’t” reaction when it arises, see it for what it is . . . banal, unimaginative, delusional. And above all, an untruth.
By so doing, crush it before it turns into fear.
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In Dharma practice, as in so much more, “I can’t” is never true.
~Neither grief or a broken heart, or fear, precludes you from knowing this.