Roshi Joan Halifax: Empathy's Double-Edge
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The Five Edge States of Virtue
Sandy Drexler: I've always been interested in edges. Edges are those kind of boundary conditions where ecologies overlap and where there's greater diversity, in fact, greater potential for life and also for suffering. The Buddha pointed toward edge states when he articulated the first noble truth, the truth of suffering. And needless to say, Buddhism has influenced my perspective on the value of exploring not just the territory of virtue, but also understanding the territory of suffering. It's not just to stand within the strength of our virtue, but to have understanding, insight, and even experience of what it is to fail,. What it is to suffer. That threshold is the edge.
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