The Buddha taught that his purpose was to alleviate suffering–to give ordinary people the tools they would need to lead compassionate, peaceful, useful lives. Among those tools was a clear-eyed recognition that we must understand impermanence, dissatisfaction, and the absence of an solid self.
From Tyranny to Transformation
Our country is experiencing what Timothy Synder terms tyranny and appears to be heading toward authoritarian control. Many (all?) of us are finding the experience scary and frightening. What does our UU value of transformation have to say to us as we strive to resist tyranny and enact a radical transformation of ourselves and our […]