Sharon Salzberg thoughts about on our interconnectedness

[Geoff-Allen]

Hope you are all coping okay.

Here's an interesting article -

It’s no wonder we’re fearful and despairing, since it can feel like we’re being hit with an avalanche of sad news on many days, while we so rarely hear inspiring visions of the future. Many people, particularly young people, feel trapped. They say that they find themselves participating in, and therefore perpetuating, a system they did not create, that does not reflect their values, and is destructive of the planet and inequitable. How to have inspiration, they ask, when the only game in town feels rigged? There’s a cognitive dissonance that goes along with that kind of trapped feeling. It’s a form of daily moral injury, what journalist Diane Silver described as a “soul wound that pierces a person’s identity, sense of morality and relationship to society."

Sharon Salzberg Reveals Why Our Interconnectedness Is Our Greatest Strength - Mindful

Cheers!

 

[Aupmanyav]

Sharon Salzberg Reveals Why Our Interconnectedness Is Our Greatest Strength - Mindful

I do not know if young people feel that way. Perhaps it is the view of my generation to which Sharon Salzberg belongs. I find the young people enjoying their life just as they did in my time. They have found a new slang for old people like me - "OK, Boomer".

 

[Twilight Hue]

Hope you are all coping okay.

Here's an interesting article -

It’s no wonder we’re fearful and despairing, since it can feel like we’re being hit with an avalanche of sad news on many days, while we so rarely hear inspiring visions of the future. Many people, particularly young people, feel trapped. They say that they find themselves participating in, and therefore perpetuating, a system they did not create, that does not reflect their values, and is destructive of the planet and inequitable. How to have inspiration, they ask, when the only game in town feels rigged? There’s a cognitive dissonance that goes along with that kind of trapped feeling. It’s a form of daily moral injury, what journalist Diane Silver described as a “soul wound that pierces a person’s identity, sense of morality and relationship to society."

Sharon Salzberg Reveals Why Our Interconnectedness Is Our Greatest Strength - Mindful

Cheers!

Not her name again. Brings me back to 2006 all over again on another forum. :0p

You know , I don't look at it as being wounds or injury or anything like that.

It creates too many expectations. Too many preconceptions.

I think if people just accepted things and looked at how things are actually working, you start to naturally understand the nature of those things and the occurrences that come of it. The impact likely won't be so magnified with less chance of getting shell shocked and overwhelmed.