How to Have Wise Hope

hope always bothered me. It just did not seem very Buddhist to hope.

And for many today, being hopeful seems worse than futile, as we find ourselves dealing with a global pandemic in which hundreds of thousands around the world are dying, economies have crashed, medical systems are facing unprecedented challenges, and clinicians in many countries are confronted with moral dilemmas that are heart breaking. And with all that, the climate catastrophe continues to unfold.

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said that life is “like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”