BUDDHISTS SAY THAT life is full of sadness and the only way to live with it is through compassion. They say that we should feel both sadness and joy in everything we do. There is a joy in being in this field, being like the hawk or the hedgehog. There is a sadness in it, too, in the journey from the place where we start to the place where we end. Mine is not a journey that goes anywhere or delivers anything of any importance, it just goes. Like a poppy it emerges, flowers and fades, then dries and turns to dust. Compassion is born at the interaction between joy and sadness. Compassion for your
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