Sangha of Auspicious Companions

WANTING TO BE RIGHT

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad.

But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes

us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable

obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless.

Of Interest to Readers

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August 22, 2012

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The Geography of Giving

Ever wonder how charitable the people are who live in your state or community? It turns out that lower-income people tend to donate a much bigger share of their discretionary incomes than wealthier people do. And rich people are more generous when they live among those who aren’t so rich. That’s according to a new study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which breaks charitable giving down by ZIP code. It found that generosity varies greatly from one region of the country to another. { read more }

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