The story of good and evil sells because it is simple and easy to understand, yet from a Buddhist viewpoint it can be dangerously deceptive. It keeps us from looking deeper, from trying to discover causes.
Nature exists freely giving for the benefit of the whole, without expecting anything in return. It’s what cells do naturally without thinking, and to me it describes the spirit of generosity, one of the paramitas in our practice
Recently I stumbled across the phrase ‘toxic positivity’, which graphically conjured up unhelpful ways of dealing with the challenges of everyday life