The Hungry Ghost Liberates Itself
About this episode
Monika Bravo explores the concept of value and self-worth through the lens of Buddhist cosmology and personal experience.
There is a figure in Buddhist cosmology called the hungry ghost. It has a vast, distended stomach and a throat so narrow that nothing can pass through. It is always reaching, as it has never felt fed. I did not know for a long time that I had organized a significant portion of my relational life around that figure. This time the story shows the same wound from a different angle, the degree itself rather than only the pattern, and the figures who have stood on that degree before. I am very touched these days because there is something underlying in the rivers of humanity right now, and it is how can we all separately, individually, reconnect to our sense of value. If you speak from the word axiom, axiom is a principle, but it also means worth. How do you make yourself worthwhile? How do you make your life worthwhile? How do you make your voice worthwhile? And now Chiron entering Taurus shows us that there is a wound in humanity because we have not spoken our values because we barely know what we need, because we have been following outside authorities for a long time to tell us this is right, this is wrong, this is the way. And there is no other thing more slippery than following…
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