Between Silence and Speech

On the War Inside American Buddhism, and the One I Have Not Resolved in Myself

I feel this argument in my own chest before I feel it as an idea. The world sits in a genuinely precarious place. 

Trump, Gaza, Israel, Iran, the accelerating climate, the sheer unaccountable weight of billionaire power, all of it presses in, and on some days headlong condemnation feels like the only honest response. 

Condemnation is also the water we are all swimming in now. Search any of those words and you will find no shortage of people already shouting about them. The strange effect of all that shouting is that its targets appear entirely unmoved by it.