Highlights
I feel like anytime I talk about almost anything these days, I have to start with this reality that we live in now. How do we hold it? How can we be with it? There’s no easy answer to that. But one thing I know is we can only do it together.
I feel so deeply that this work we’re doing here today,in these days together, is at the top of the list of the most important things that anybody can do if we care about the poly crisis and we care about our children and we care about this living earth community because without it, it will be extremely hard for us to do anything else.
We go from not knowing this is happening to climate change, species lost … to I don’t want to know this, to I’m sorry I don’t want to know this, to I don’t know how to know this. I don’t know how to speak about it. I don’t know how to act. Like, what does this mean for my life, my livelihood, my choices, the way I move in the world? And then, maybe, I’m learning how to know this, but that takes a lot of support, support we often don’t have. I’m learning how to know this. I’m starting to see causes and conditions that go far far back …
You know when hope becomes rigid? When somebody insists that it’s all going to be okay, there’s something that doesn’t smell quite right. That’s not really hope. Do we really need hope, or do we need awe?
I stumbled somehow on the beautiful Dharma. And I learned how to turn towards my suffering…
