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Devendra Banhart — ‘When Things Fall Apart’

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Inner and the Outer Obstacle

Buddhism is kind of like preparing for a pandemic, only in that it's like a daily oh, bear witness to the suffering of this world. Bear witness to the suffering that your emotions are causing. Learn to sit with it. And those outer obstacles will never really stop coming, but the inner ones, you can learn how to kind of dance with those. I think that's so helpful. But a, yes, i mean, it's a compounded suffering now, thanks to this, of course....

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