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Facing the Beast: What I’m Doing About ‘Active Clubs’
PART 1: Comfort vs. Awakening
Everywhere in the world — but let’s just take our country, for instance — there is cause for grave concern. We’re bombarded every day by record-breaking heat waves, flash floods, and tornadoes (in places where they don’t usually show up), twisting people’s entire lives off their foundations and leaving them in pieces on the ground, miles away.
It’s hard to process. Whatever your go-to soothers are, they’re being called on 24/7. Netflix binges, overwork, knitting, booze, crossword puzzles, weed, you name it. Anything to help us look away from the world.
Meditation can be a habit, too, but it’s not necessarily a “soother” habit, if we’re doing it for real. With real meditation, we face the world as it is. Even scarier, we face ourselves as we are.
This is hard.
And it’s the last thing we want to do at a time like this.
But it’s the most important thing we can do, especially at a time like this.
My most fervent aspiration is to be a vessel for comfort to all living beings. But more importantly, I want to be part of the path to awakening for…
