It is common for us to focus ... - Dhamma by Ajahn Jayasāro

It is common for us to focus too much on what makes us different from each other. This over-emphasis leads to arrogance and insecurity, prejudice and fear.

As Buddhists we seek to prevent this imbalance by constantly returning to an awareness of those things that unite us all. We reflect on the simple indisputable truth that everyone of us are companions in birth, old age, sickness and death. Everybody wants to be happy. Nobody wants to suffer.

We don't deny difference or ignore them. But we recognise them within the context of our shared nature as sentient beings in a challenging and fragile world.

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