Can we live good lives despite 'everything happening' right now? Can we simply 'be with what is' while also staying engaged? What are healthy ways to mentally prepare for 'whatever might come next'?
I guess the real question is what does involvement mean?
I also like the rebacca solnit’s reframe I heard somewhere about hope not being a positive expectation but simply an acknowledgement that we can’t know what the future holds.
I appreciate the view, not fully there yet as it requires a deep peace with civilisational death that I don’t actually have it in me.
I'm not there yet either. Perhaps the post tragic perspective is not some perfectly blissful state to attain and then all is good, perhaps it's an ongoing imperfect practice, akin to non-dualism as promoted by Buddhism.
Ram dass says “total involvement, no attachment.”
I guess the real question is what does involvement mean?
I also like the rebacca solnit’s reframe I heard somewhere about hope not being a positive expectation but simply an acknowledgement that we can’t know what the future holds.
I appreciate the view, not fully there yet as it requires a deep peace with civilisational death that I don’t actually have it in me.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Sinem.
I'm not there yet either. Perhaps the post tragic perspective is not some perfectly blissful state to attain and then all is good, perhaps it's an ongoing imperfect practice, akin to non-dualism as promoted by Buddhism.
I'm with you on that.
It's no longer about being "right"; it's about engineering hope.
It's not about what is, but rather what we want to see instead.