The Field It’s a big world out there. As we learn to curate the impulses and influences that come into our tiny corner of it, we feel a little frightened by the universal avalanche of need, plethora of goods and absence of satiety. An international pandemic only makes this worse. We are in serious danger of becoming phobic about other people as sources of dread, infection and sabotage. The “solution” to the extent there is any – would be to strengthen the confidence of our inner selves, setting up a supportive inner mantra of “Good choice! Right thinking!” in order to become our own teachers. Buddhists say the answer is to cultivate compassion; realizing we are all in the same boat with equal helpings of suffering and want. When we have solved the problem of knowing what is “enough” – and we are getting there – we will be able to turn and help the person next to us. “I celebrate good choices”
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