As I said last week: If we live inside paranoid fantasies, we will invariably act in ways that bring them closer to reality. The person who expects hostility from the world will inevitably enflame it in others, seemingly validating his original fears. Much of the media is seeding these fantasies...

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We can go to the Buddha's Fire Sermon & learn that it is we who turn the world into a blazing fire through our fears, our dreams or fixations, or we can go to the words of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself...

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...Each day has enough trouble of its own'. The truth is the same: Be faithful to the present. Keep yourself grounded in the world in front of you. Don't be swept along by your own fear or the fear others. I assume I'm not alone in struggling with this advice, so I thought I'd put this 🧵 out there.

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Waiting for a gas engineer like...

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'Touching impermanence deeply, we touch the world beyond permanence & impermanence. We touch the ground of being & see that which we have called being & non-being are just notions. Nothing is ever lost. Nothing is ever gained' (Thich Nhat Hanh). ☸️🪷

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