The Suffering Is Not the End of the Story

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Part of what's ind of the existential impact of this pandemic is that we're seeing the human condition t large. The buddha describes these in his for noble truths. We're seeing that human life entails suffering. And no matter how much we try to protect ourselves, whether it's with technology or the wealth that we accumulate and other such things, that no one is exempt.

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.