At the weekly gathering of the Seattle sangha last night, guiding teacher Rodney Smith made a disturbing observation. He used to be a hospice worker, and he said, "The people who had the hardest time dying were the ones who thought of themselves as most spiritual. And Buddhists -- they were the worst of the lot! They'd be thinking that they should be balanced and equanimous when everything was terrible and what they really needed to do was SCREAM!"
Maybe Buddhist training, at least in America, isn't really accomplishing what we think it's accomplishing.
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