The dharma has much to teach us on how to work with the “afflictive emotions.” While fear and anxiety are a natural response to danger, they are often rooted in a misinterpretation of reality and become a habitual reaction. With practice, we can cultivate a more wholesome and healthy response, becoming more effective in managing the challenges we face, individually and collectively.
How contemplative practice and non-violence approaches can bring about transformation, not just internally but in the world at large.
How can we find balance and acceptance in the face of suffering, loss, and injustice, in our lives and in the world? Through our practice we find the middle path between complacency and worry.
(Part 8 of 10 of a series on The Paramis)
As the new year approaches, we take stock of 2023 and our lives, not as we wish them to be or fear them to be but as they truly are. And we look with integrity at the changes we hope to make in the near future.