Jane Hirshfield – The Fullness of Things
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Is There a Cost to Longing?
I often think of the emotions as being information. They are needed information, but they ar also our weather vain. How we feel them is the weather of this moment and the spiritual tenor of who we are at this moment in our lives. The practice of zen has a very interesting relationship to longing because it both works with it and also holds it a little lightly. Within the world view of buddhism, both are true. There is suffering, and it is our job to try to end it. And the perfection of things as they are is already here around us. We can't escape from perfection. We cannot escape from suffering,. most of the time. But i hope there
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