How Do We Not Let Narratives Doom Us?

"I feel like we've just gone into this weird place where we believe narratives and ideologies," says Bocan. "It's the opposite of what you're talking about, duccany." In a Buddhist practice called tong len, which is a cultivation of compassion, people are told to stop telling themselves stories that cause them pain. The process involves starting with yourself breathing in the pain - hot, dark, thick energy.