The Fly in The Ointment
3 min readDec 11, 2019
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Why do we suffer? Why so much greed, folly, and violence in the world? The Zen answer is that because our mind and senses deceive us into seeing ourselves as separate from each other and the world, we begin to think “I hate that.”, “I love this.”, “This is mine.”, “That’s yours.” — J’aime ona Pangaia