Awakening Through Conflict - Tara Brach 

Tara Brach eloquently describes mindfulness fundamentals. Thank You, Tara. Frank John Ninivaggi MD, Yale "Learned Mindfulness: Physician Engagement and MD Wellness"

This is so helpful my integrative doe tour suggested this to me. As I have just completed my cancer journey ,now healing

"Vengeance is a lazy form of grief". Very true, although perhaps "passive" would be a better word than "lazy". It is a form of grief that doesn't make us WORK through the grief in order to heal, but displaces it onto someone or something else. Unfortunately, the entire American "justice" system is based on this horrific idea of "crime and punishment", with a prison system that abuses and violates inmates, with the consequence that recidivism is much higher in America than in countries where prisons attempt to engage, educate, and change the personality of inmates.

It could be argued (and Lévi-Strauss would have) that binary oppositions (ie. good/bad, black/white, male/female, etc.) are the basic way in which human culture has been structured, well beyond and after tribalism. What CAN be changed, however, is the subsequent move to attach a positive or negative value to these oppositions. Recognize diversity without wanting to judge its connotations. The hilarious but sadly very realistic joke she tells is illuminating in this respect.

This is confusing to me. I understand that there isn't simply just "black and white" or "right and wrong" and that the grey areas in between need to be acknowledged. However, is this going to bring society to a point where evil is considered "okay?"

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