By Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt
Spring offers up the promise of joy, hope and inspiration. These qualities can be nourished even in the darkest of seasons, including this one: It is early April 2022, and the warfare continues in the Ukraine. There too spring has arrived, and with new life there is also the death of thousands on both sides of the conflict. But Spring, with its strong drive toward life, mirrors qualities that can inspire us, if we allow them, in these troubled, threatening times.
The first of these qualities is trust. Trust is embodied and expressed in the myriad spring blossoms responding to the warmth of the sun.
The second quality is vulnerability. There is a great deal of uncertainty around the bursting forth of new shoots and flowers.
So there is the trust of opening to the sun’s warmth and the vulnerability to frost.
Both present year after year, millennium after millennium, from the beginning of life on this earth.

On Being a Mindfulness Teacher
A talk by Dr. Linda Lehrhaupt to graduates of an MBSR teacher-training program

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