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In this week's episode, I explore two teachers - suffering and compassion. I discuss what it means to open your heart to the suffering of the world and  to allow the rigid categories of disconnected self/other to dissolve. I walk you through my journey with compassion and what I have learned along the way. (Hint: Like suffering, compassion is entwined. Finding compassion for 'other' and 'self' is a co-occurring process - thus, we find compassion for the 'other' through the 'self', and for the 'self' through the 'other'). I speak about the radical potential of compassion, and how fundamental it is in moving us towards our dreams of a liberated world.

This episode is also about holding complexity, about holding space for the paradoxes that arise when we meet the world fully and attempt to chart this unfamiliar terrain with language. This is coupled with a mini quantum physics rant about the quantum superposition principle and how I am thinking about the limits of language as we attempt to capture the immensity of our human experience. I hope that you will join me on this journey!

Recommended reading from this episode: The Compassionate Life by Marc Barasch, and the Compassion Book by Pema Chodron, as well as any book by/about His Holiness the Dalai Lama.