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Wake Up Call: Relationship with the Teacher

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[…] retreat. He excoriates the view that the first root downfall means absolute obedience to the guru. He is very explicit: you have to do everything your lama tells you only as it pertains to your spiritual practice. He says that the first root downfall doesn’t apply to how you live and function in the world.

Silhouetted figure walking alone down a foggy road

Learned Helplessness

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One of the primary characteristics of learned helplessness is that the person feels passive with respect to the system. The passivity, however, is only half the story… Can learned helplessness be undone? The answer is “Yes.” The cost, however, is high.

Person sitting hunched in a concrete tunnel, light streaming in from the far end.