"Recognizing the World Wound turns us away from a sense of exclusiveness. If we work to heal the wound in ourselves and other beings, then this part of the body of THE WORLD is also healed. Each of us carries or has carried suffering. This suffering is personal. But where is it that we end and the rest of creation begins? As part of the continuum of creation, our suffering is also part of the world's suffering. Its causes are more complex and ramified than the local self . . . Going into the wound, we can see that the suffering of others is our suffering. It is not separate."
Joan Halifax,
Zen Buddhist roshi
Photo: A Ponderosa Pine burned at the bottom in the Galena Fire; Lory State Park, CO; May 7, 2013. The black section under the tree is not a shadow; it is burned soil.
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