We
have endless expectations that our experience will go a certain way,
and these expectations are almost inevitably foiled... Zen Buddhist
practice asks us to sit with and try to accept that incongruity, rather
than strain against it.
—Mike Gillis, “Cringing Toward Compassion”
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A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Releasing Our Expectations
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