Rebecca Walker asks: How do you make yourself open to others?
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We’re delighted to have Rebecca Walker join us for today’s Q&A. Rebecca is the author of To Be Real, Black, White and Jewish, and more recently, Baby Love, which tells the story of how she came to accept and embrace motherhood. For more from Rebecca, be sure to read and subscribe to her blog.
Carrie says: Leave space and emptiness in conversation. Make room for people’s narratives. This can be challenging if I feel less than someone and I get caught up in proving and work to fill space, to tell my story. And then like Rebecca remind myself that I too am flawed and beautiful.
Danielle says: This is a powerful question, because the answer is a cure for so much of our human struggling. I want to be more open than I am. (I think my new year will be meditation on openness.) Listening keeps my heart unclenched. The deep kind of listening where you meet the person, the words, the circumstance as an opportunity for reverence, or at least understanding. Listening is active openness.
Rebecca says: I cultivate openness by returning again and again to Buddhist teachings on emptiness and ending fixation on inherently transient phenomena. And reminding myself that I’m a human being just like everyone else–imperfect, beautiful, and ever evolving.
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