Friday, February 23, 2018

How could meditation feel peaceful after a mass shooting? - Lion's Roar

How could meditation feel peaceful after a mass shooting? - Lion's Roar

So, to meditate “properly,” with the pain of the world might mean to not grab on to thoughts about the pain of the world, nor to push them away. Instead, we return over and over to the Big Question that all these thoughts are trying to answer: What is my relationship to the suffering of the world? No single answer can contain the truth of this question, so our practice, again and again, is to return to not-knowing.