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Question: "If you get too kind to yourself, will you just get lazy?" Answer: Nope. Every time we genuinely practice self-kindness, it makes us want to show up even more. Laziness only happens when you don't want to show up. Kindness is, ironically, an antidote to laziness.
Ethan Nichtern
Here's the real question for 2017: how do you share a society with people who don’t even believe in society?
Ethan Nichtern
Meditate like nothing is urgent.
After meditating, there’s nothing more urgent than compassionate action.
Ethan Nichtern
When a small minority steals power from a larger majority, a good tactic to maintain power is to make the majority feel overwhelmed, paralyzed.
If you feel overwhelmed now, know that it is strategic, and you are part of the majority who wants a sane compassionate world.
Ethan Nichtern
From a Buddhist standpoint, compassion is never a violent act. But compassion can be quite wrathful. Wrathful compassion means that sometimes we need to clearly stand against harm. Now is such a time.
Ethan Nichtern
I long to live in a country where we realize the best path to personal happiness is to make sure people around you have what they need.
Ethan Nichtern
Meditation teachers should only stop talking about social justice when the world becomes socially just.
Ethan Nichtern
The middle path is not about splitting the difference between sanity and confusion. The middle path is sanity itself, wisdom that comes about from releasing equally extreme beliefs on both sides. If you view the middle path as some weird compromise between sanity and confusion, insanity will always win. Imagine a teacher coming across a bully in the playground who just punched a kid in the face. The bully says he had to punch the kid. The other kid says "I don't want to be punched." If the teacher tried to compromise, the bully would get to punch the other kid in the face half of the time. That's not the middle path. The middle path is the teacher stopping the bully from being ruled by his violence. There is no compromise between violence and compassion. Compassion must win. Compassion for all beings is the only sane middle way.
Ethan Nichtern
