
About this episode
Discover new approaches to overcoming life’s challenges! In this episode of the Pilgrim Heart Podcast, Krishna Das offers powerful teachings that empower you to take control of your own liberation from suffering.
In today's episode, KD reflects on:
- Developing the quality of bodhicitta
- Staying present through tragedy and suffering
- Changing how the present moment feels rather than being lost in the past
- The impossibility of avoiding pain
- Coping with the loss of a loved one
- Dealing with reality rather than seeking constant bliss
- Creating positive habits and releasing destructive emotions
- Practicing coming back to our breath
- Putting ourselves in others shoe’s when they hurt us
“It is our own minds that create the suffering and it is our minds that liberate us from suffering.” – Krishna Das
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