Dear Friends,

You are warmly welcomed to join Judy, Tim and Debbie as we continue to explore the beautiful, healing practice of Beginning Anew.
During this session, we will focus on the third step – sharing our suffering with the person we feel has made us suffer after we have first acknowledged their positive qualities and looked deeply into how we may have contributed to the situation or conflict (the first two steps). This third step in the Beginning Anew practice can be quite hard for us, and requires us to look deeply into our own suffering to understand why we feel hurt or angry about the words or actions of another person. But when we are able to share our story, using loving speech and a compassionate understanding of our own and the other person’s suffering, this can help the other person understand why we suffer, and how they may have contributed this, even without knowing. Through this third step, we don’t ask or expect someone to change, but hope that understanding can grow and healing can occur.

The question for Dharma sharing is, What have I learned when I look deeply into why I feel hurt? 

We will conclude with a guided meditation from Tim.