Peanut Butter Cup Healing

Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word that means “noble or awakened heart.” Just as butter is inherent in milk and oil is inherent in a sesame seed, the soft spot of bodhichitta is inherent in you and me. It  is equated, in part, with our ability to love, no matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhichitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole.

It  is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals. When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself. Bodhichitta is also equated, in part, with compassion–our ability to feel the pain that we share with others.

Without realizing it we continually shield ourselves from this pain because it scares us. Based on a deep fear of being hurt, we erect protective walls made out of strategies, opinions, prejudices, and emotions. Yet just as a jewel that has been buried in the earth for a million years is not discolored or harmed, in the same way this noble heart is not affected by all the ways we try to protect ourselves from it. The jewel can be brought out into the light at any time, and it will glow as brilliantly as if nothing had ever happened.

Peanut Butter Cup Mini Donuts Recipe

Gluten, dairy, and egg free

Makes 16-18 mini donuts

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/3 c. sorghum flour (I use Authentic Foods brand)
• 1/3 c. Brown rice flour (Authentic Foods)
• 1/4 c. cocoa powder
• 1/4 c. potato starch
• 1/4 c. arrowroot powder
• 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
• (OR: 2/3 c. regular flour + 1/4 c. cocoa powder and omit xanthan gum)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 c. brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 c. buttermilk (1/2 Tb apple cider vinegar + 1/2 c. non-dairy milk)
• 1 1/2 tsp Ener-G egg replacer + 2 Tbs warm water, mixed til frothy
• 1/4 c. oil
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix dry ingredients {from flours to salt} together until fully combined.
3. Make a well in the center of the bowl. Add all the remainder of wet ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until just incorporated.
4. Grease a mini donut pan.
5. Place 1/2 batter into a ziploc baggie. Cut the corner of one side to use as an opening. This part is important in the shape of the donuts: Using one hand to firmly keep the dough flowing out of the hole, squirt the dough out in a circle in the pan.
6. Bake 8 minutes. Allow to sit in the pan for 3 minutes after you take it out of the oven.

Peanut Butter Frosting

• 1/4 c. non-dairy butter {I like Fleischman’s}, softened
• 1/4 c. creamy peanut butter
• 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar
• 1 Tb non-dairy milk

1. Mix butter and peanut butter together with an electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes, until fluffy.
2. Add powdered sugar and mix. Add milk until creamy, smooth, and fluffy.
3. Pipe into the small hole of the mini donut.

Dip entire donut into and coat with melted non-dairy chocolate. Allow to set for 30 minutes or freeze for 5 minutes and eat immediately.

This tenderness for life, bodhichitta , awakens when we no longer shield ourselves from the vulnerability of our condition, from the basic fragility of existence. It awakens through kinship with the suffering of others. We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.

–Pema Chodron, Comfortable with Uncertainty

{Thank you again, Krystal. xo}

From the bottom of my bodhichitta, I thank you for being some of the most supportive friends. Thank you for the phone calls, the texts, the emails, the messages, the gifts, the meals out this past week–no one has ever felt as loved as this girl does right this moment. I love you all. Truly.

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