By Berenika Rozanska
“Confess your hidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, let it go.
Go to the places that scare you.”
Advice from her teacher to the Tibetan Yogini Machik Labdron
I am listening to the stories of the life of Tilopa, a crazy Indian yogi, one of the famous 84 mahasiddhas - highly spiritually realised human beings, with very unconventional life stories and teaching methods.
It was not exactly a choice for me to follow the Buddhism path (it took my many years of dissolving my inner sceptic to actually embrace this natural impulse and at-homeness of this calling). Also it was not a choice to immerse myself in Possibility Management. A paradox of surrendering to a calling and to a commitment growing wildly in me out of a seed that I do not remember consciously planting and yet that I can choose to water and nurture.
What inspires me in the lives of the great yogis and in the life of a Possibilitator are its radical premises. Cutting through habitual patterns. Seeing that no story is actually true. Uncovering and building inner resilience, clarity and power. Encouragement to non-linearity. Overarching commitment to a greater purpose, a high bar I set for myself to transform what is not truly mine and to let my true nature shine out and act in the world.
On this path I am faced with discomforts of peeling layers of myself. Yet my commitment to this process is bigger than the pain. With each layer removed I am lighter from myself.
I go to places that scare me.
