Just when you realize you're being pulled into taking sides in troubled times, that's the reminder to practice as if you were a monk in the meditation forest.
You know, the skipping straight to world-fixing is 95% of people engaged in that activity right now. So we're seeing a terrible spiral of pathology. The more unfixed people try to fix the world, the worse things get, which prompts more of the sense that 'we have to do something!' I hate to admit it, but Jordan Peterson was right about the 'Clean your room' thing. He was talking about the right of sovereignty with that, and it was quite effective.
Great post. Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda's version) changed my life more than any other book
Amen.
You know, the skipping straight to world-fixing is 95% of people engaged in that activity right now. So we're seeing a terrible spiral of pathology. The more unfixed people try to fix the world, the worse things get, which prompts more of the sense that 'we have to do something!' I hate to admit it, but Jordan Peterson was right about the 'Clean your room' thing. He was talking about the right of sovereignty with that, and it was quite effective.
Predictably, you have inspired another piece, NF, one for a wider audience.