
Judging others, feeling Guilt, and Contemplation
We are all wired to occasionally feel superior (my earliest memory of such folly reaches back to the first grade). The really important question, therefore, is not, “how could I feel that?” but rather, “What am I going to do with that which I feel?” Let’s blend compassion with the Buddha’s three marks of reality: . . . 1) How could _____... feel stressful? 2) All being’s _____... may I soothe! 3) How could _____... never last? 4) How could _____... NOT be me? . . . The FIRST