I’ve been seeing in my summer routine an unnerving parallel to my work with the Community School and I’m struggling to find a way to deal with both problems. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done on the school--a lot of work that I am very conscious of. It is very tempting to simply put all other things aside and see to it all, but this would end up creating more problems than it solves for me on a personal level. One of the important goals of this project, in my mind, is to demonstrate that it is possible for such an endeavor to be successful without the need for the restrictive, detrimental sacrifices to our individual lives that people (read: *I*) often make for the sole reason that we don’t know how to moderate our many and varied efforts so that they may coexist in harmony with one another. To ignore habits of health, to use a personally relevant example, for the sake of creating this Community School, defeats the purpose of the project as a manifestation of what Buddhists see as the Eightfold Path.
[to be continued…]
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What kind of feedback, exactly, are you looking for?
Life, as you know, is all about balance. Too much is too much, regardless of what it is.
I think what you're suffering is an excess of ego (at least, that's what I find MY problems in this area to be caused by). You don't have to be the only one doing stuff. No one might do it as well as you, or as mindfully or as carefully, but it could still get done (I had to learn this in giving over my mother's care to others).
The thing is? There's a natural balance. The Universe craves it; it is not optional. WE'RE the ones who fuck with the equilibrium.
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