Responding to Injustice & Cruelty - Ian Challis
How might we meet the realities of cruelty and injustice with a grounded and compassionate Buddhist perspective? Ian Challis suggests that we first acknowledge that witnessing or experiencing cruelty can generate intense emotional responses—anger, grief, fear—and that these reactions are natural. However, Ian encourages us to avoid being overwhelmed or reactive. Instead, he suggests grounding ourselves in awareness and intention, recognizing that our own suffering in the face of cruelty is an...