Buddhist psychology called selective watering. We all possess a diverse set of latent capacities and attitudes; these are our seeds. The seeds that we water are the ones that grow. If we want to develop unshakable groundedness, formal practice is not enough; we need to water each of the seeds, or in this case, the principles we’ve been discussing—acceptance, presence, patience, vulnerability, deep community, and movement—in our everyday lives. Equally important, we need to stop watering the seeds in our lives that thwart the development of these principles, aspects of heroic individualism such
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