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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