In a continuation of a five-week series on the patterns that run our lives, Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Tasha Schumann explores striving, the anxious, competitive knot that turns creative passion into a relentless hustle, and how to loosen it.
Key ideas:
- Rejoicing as the Antidote to Jealousy: In the Buddhist tradition, the antidote to jealousy is to actively celebrate others’ successes, not as a performance, but as a genuine practice that slowly loosens the knot of envy and reopens creative flow.
- A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships: When we see ourselves as part of an ecosystem rather than lone wolves in competition, other people’s wins stop feeling like our losses and the field of what’s possible expands for everyone.
- Hustle Culture Feeds the Knot: Follower counts, bestseller charts, and viral metrics create a false urgency that pits us against each other, but our paths are not in competition and the urgency is an illusion.
- Loosening Into Flow: Practices like unstructured play, somatic work, and nondual meditation help dissolve the body’s deep survival patterns and restore the effortless, wind-like momentum that is our natural state.
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