Turning Toward Life
In this excerpt from your book, you detail the steps you took to help one of your students process his attitudes and biases. What kind of energy does that work require?
It requires a certain kind of commitment, a certain willingness to turn toward that which we could so easily deflect, turn away from, deny, minimize, avoid. For me it’s really important that when these opportunities present themselves for us to look into what’s arising around this, we turn in to that opportunity as opposed to away from it. I also think it takes a kind of grounding in a certain kind of love—kindness, loving-kindness—for me it takes some feeling of the value, of the possibility of connecting across lots of difference and the importance and value of trying to do it, again and again, even when it’s difficult.
Why is it worth it to you to do this work?
In my view, absolutely everything is connected, and that means all of us are connected,
