Student and Teacher

Together on the Path

As students on the Tibetan Bön Buddhist path, we offer our teachers a range of questions from the simple to the complex. Here is a question about what to do when you are feeling burned out and your elements feel low.

Student: What do I do if I feel burned out? All the elements feel low.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche: If you are feeling like that, you can go to wherever the most beautiful place is for you. You don't have to go to Hawaii, but whether it's the sky or water that you love, you go there and visit and connect and retrieve. And maybe one advice would also be that when you feel like you are drained so much, don't try too hard. Don't try to control your life or anyone else's life that you love. Don't try to control and don't try too hard. And rest more, allow more. Sometimes a lot more things can happen. Sometimes you are able to do a lot more when you allow than when you force.