Hi Scott,
Your Day-Wreckers essay hit home with me. As an elementary
school teacher, there've been encounters with unhappy
parents. I remember one morning arriving at school feeling
on top of the world- shit-hot lesson plans, plenty of
sleep, papers graded, good breakfast etc. and then little
Johnny sidles up to my desk with a note from mom... the
wrecking ball! There's one paragraph in Lila that comes to
my mind whenever the wrecking ball strikes:
"If you take all this karmic garbage and make yourself feel
better by passing it onto others that's normal. [The
teachers' lounge malaise] That's the way the world works.
But if you manage to absorb it and not pass it on, that's
the highest moral conduct of all. That really advances
everything, not just you. The whole world. If you look at
the lives of some of the great moral figures in history-
Christ, Lincoln, Gandhi and others- you'll see that that's
what they were really involved in., the cleansing of the
world through the absorption of karmic garbage. They didn't
pass it on. Their followers sometimes did, but they
didn't." (Ch. 32)
And after effectively absorbing karmic trash, we are also
in a better position to consider any treasure contained
therein.
Regards,
Mark Butler
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