cringe moment

Good Morning,

Every Spring I look forward to the day when i can step outside without the "cringe moment." That brief second when the cold wind hits your skin and you hunker down inside your jacket and yell out IT'S COOOOOLD!!!...

There's also a different kind of "cringe moment." According to "This American Life" host Ira Glass, some stories are capable of forcing a physical reaction out of us...For example, when we hear tales of personal humiliation, romance gone wrong, and people who profoundly misjudge how they're perceived by others.

I'd like to share with you a cringe moment from last week.

I am a HUGE fan of the Audio Dharma. Talks given on various topics by speakers at the Insight Meditation Center in Red Woods City, CA.

http://www.audiodharma.org/

i collect these talks regarding each speaker like "Buddha Idol"

Anushka Fernandopulle, Andrea Fella, Ines Freedman...I have my favorites!

Occasionally, a new name will slip into the mix. Carolyn Dille?

http://www.carolyndille.com/Welcome.html

or

Carolyn Dille? (I Googled her. She must be the one on the far right : )


This was a poem given at the conclusion of Carolyn's talk on wisdom to a group of beginning meditators. I cringed with or for her when I realized 1. she penned this poem and 2. it was supposed to start a vibrant concluding discussion...

If this clip were longer you'd here confused awkward silence and Response #1 "I didn't understand the poem at all..." and Response #2 "I didn't understand the poem either!"

cringe moment from Amanda Vallo on Vimeo.

may this be your only cringe moment this week.

Have a Terrific Tuesday,

Amanda
Bodhisattva in Training...

p.s. this is the text if you'd like to print it out for your desk.

Home
Home full of emptiness
Conjugate the happiness you’ve gleaned
The Pineciscan’s table is set upside down
On the Birch
What color of dolor stains every eye?
Your daughter feeds the neighbors with bread she’s baked of Dust, and light, and dew...
The body’s spool unwinds true as a worm
Here is the door you open to cries of…surprise!
Hear the rest