Faith and Values: Added family security a necessity with today’s political discourse
There is a Buddhist practice I used to struggle with: the instruction to look at every person as if they were once your mother – someone who, in another life, cared for you completely, asking nothing in return. I couldn’t get there. My own mother chose her religion over me. The idea of universal maternal love felt like a cruelty. Then Stanley arrived, and I finally understood it from the other side.