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Gene Lushtak

6/20/2018

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“When the story gets good, and this TV show in the mind about us — when that character who we take ourselves to be is winning — it’s pretty awesome, right? And so I found that my capacity to put that down and not be seduced by it really came with holding with compassion and understanding just how much I long for those states.” — Gene Lushtak

Few have taken the time to look closely at, understand, and teach about what happens when joy in the form of excitement becomes problematic. But this gem from writer, filmmaker, and dharma teacher Gene Lushtak is a really great start to an important conversation about joy with others or shared joy. Understanding the ways that exuberance can override a holistic approach to both individual as well as collective transformational well-being — an approach that actually listens fully to all parts and all people — may be, in fact, a much needed antidote to unconscious mechanisms that perpetuate status quo power structures.

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Larry Ward

6/19/2018

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"Everybody is not having the same experience of America." — Larry Ward

Pity is not just an interpersonal problem. We need to do more than adjust the way we treat each other in everyday situations when hard things happen or suffering is present, moving from a passive stance of witness that says, "poor you," to an active stance of will that commits to your relief as everyone's uplifting. In the collective, the way that pity continues to snake through social systems of care requires radical rethinking and redoing. Among many who are addressing this issue, Larry Ward is making a unique space to bridge compassion work and social justice in order to root out pity. He is working to make a truly more compassionate world. I love this person.




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