Attachment and “What If?”
I recently moved to a different state. It was a decision made not with joy and not to a reunion with loved ones, not a return to “home”. No, this was me moving away from everything I had built for myself.
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Anatta: Where Did I Leave Myself?
By Johnathon Lee Let’s see, where did I put myself? I know I’m around here...
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Mr. Rogers and the Buddha Saw Me Grieve
Mr. Rogers looked me in the eye from my television screen and told me about losing his childhood dog. Then he sang to me about how the same people who are sad sometimes are the people who are also glad sometimes. Then he continued the song with an observation about how it’s the same for him and I – this sadness and gladness.
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The Howl of Wolves: Empathetic Dharma in “The Heroic Heart: Awakening Unbound Compassion” by Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo {Review}
By Kellie Schorr “When I was living up in the mountains in Lahaul, there was a pack of...
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There is Compassion in Harm Reduction {Trigger Warning}
I do not practice conditional compassion; I practice Harm Reduction. Imagine if I had left Darren alone in his room to inject what he had just purchased. He didn’t have any test strips that detect the presence of Fentanyl in his drugs and this was when we were just starting to see a lot of it pop up into the supply. If Darren had gotten a large enough unanticipated dose of fentanyl in his heroin that day and injected it, he might have died in that hotel room and not lived long enough to complete that housing assessment with me or gotten connected to resources that might have helped him. Recovery is only an option if he is alive.
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