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OftenBen  ·  3744 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on.

I only do because I recognize the place he's at. Psychedelics and meditation got me out of it.

There's a very important idea in lay-Buddhism that highlights the problem well I think. A decent phrasing would be 'When someone is offensive to you (This counts), remember that something terrible must have happened that would make them into a person that would do the offensive thing.'