Contemplative fieldnote: Fixation on social injustice had become a major obstacle to a friend’s practice & sleep. Pushed them beyond capacity to notice anger and act skilfully. This is what helped:
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1. If one fixates on local horror within a sphere of perceived influence, one forgets global horror ie: natural brutality, injustice, suffering. One also forgets the importance of personal sanity, among other things.
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I should clarify - by local I meant in the sense of a specific ‘case’/group, rather than near to oneself, spatially/geographically per se. Although the latter doesn’t preclude the former.
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And FWIW, I respect your opinion, especially if you are of the capacity to be of hands on help. We wanted to avoid the trap of feeling morally bankrupt if one isn’t hands-on, because that isn’t helpful. In this case she can’t help hands-on, as much as she might have that impulse
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