I’ve just started reading Pema Chödrön’s book Welcome the Unwelcome and started with chapter 3, the fine art of failure.

This is a good topic! We all have failure’s in life and we need to find ways to live with these failures.

As explained by Pema there are two ways we typically respond to failure. We either blame people, situations or other factors outside our control. Or we take the failures as personal shortcomings.

Pema explains that there is a third way, through accepting our vulnerabilities. Our ego tries to protect us from accepting our vulnerabilities and lead us to a life in which there is only happiness and pleasure. This is not realistic and we need to accept both suffering and joy as parts of life.

References

Chödrön, Pema. Welcoming the Unwelcome. Shambhala Publications, Inc, 2019.

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