Episode 114: {Solo} Do you deserve all this suffering?
“Maybe asking if we deserve the hardships we have, or the suffering we are experiencing, is missing the point of them altogether. Maybe suffering just is and life just happens– and the stories we tell either amplify our suffering, or not.”
-Madison Morrigan, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is talking about the way we relate to suffering and attaching it to our deservedness.
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In this episode, Madison talks about:
Suffering is a human experience, not a deserved experience
Buddhist metaphor of "the second arrow"
Deservedness is a story rooted in a punishing paradigm
The consequences of our choices
A culture of punishment and reward
Abolition: Rejecting prisons, punishment, and policing
Life is happening, and we respond
Life is happening, and we are responsible for what we do next
Divesting from the idea of deservedness
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