250927 What I learned in my studies this morning 5*

Today's Meditation(s):

The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh (ed. by Melvin McLeod), The Wounded Child Inside

Pleasant? Enjoyable? WTH?

My pain scares the crap out of me. How can recognizing it, much less embracing it be soothing? be relieving? Assuage my desire for an absolution by pain and fire?

But there's no forgiveness there. There's no salvation.

Is there? IS there?

Isn't my pain so special that it alone is unforgivable, damming beyond redemption so that the boddhisatva must be wrong?