Spiritual Practice Is About Seeing Life With Irony and Metaphor and Complexity

spiritual practice, to put it in another language, is about seeing life with irony and metaphor and complexity. "It confuses our mind to see that there's something good and something painful all mixed together," he says. No matter what we do, sometimes we will suffer,. And birth and death. All those are confusing to the mind, and if you try to figure it out or create perfection, you can. But what they can lead you to ... is a greatness of forgiveness and wisdom"