Once and For All

I’m a month or so into six months in a volunteer working program at a buddhist center in London. Nothing like a 140-year-old building to remind you that work never ends. Mostly I work under the assumption that I’m going to finish… but more and more in this building, in this website and in this world, I am noticing that the work and some other things (suffering and desire, but also space and kindness) seem to go on and on and on.

More and more coming to wonder how work and the rest might be different if I hold both the desire to finish and the reality of forever more clearly in mind, simultaneously. Mutually. Both true, without conflict. How might work, or a website, serve me and other directly and still ripple out for all beings at the same time? Think there just might be a bit of Christmas somewhere in that wonder. Joy to the World.

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