How can we meditate in a world on fire? | Sister True Dedication | #shorts #mindfulness #meditation

So sometimes we're asked: how can we

possibly justify the practice of sitting

in meditation when the world's on fire?

When there is so much violence, injustice,

and suffering in the world, how is

meditation in any way an appropriate

response? And sometimes there's even the

sense of, "Is it spiritual bypassing?

Are you just running away from the problem?"

So in our tradition, we have some quite deep

responses to this. The first is what our

teacher used to say, which is: "Each one of

us not only has the right to sit in

meditation, but we must kind of reclaim

that right." And for him, it was to say

that we have the right to stop, to look

deeply, and to listen deeply. And to take