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Can Mindfulness Lead to Greater Empathy, Love, and Kindness?
Empathy, love, and kindness are part instinct and part intent. Mindfulness helps to direct it.
The vast majority of lack and scarcity in our society is bullshit. It’s totally artificial and made-up. Most of the things that are lacking or scarce can be replaced, substituted, or simply require a shift in mindset and perspective.
This can be both tangible and intangible. For example — money. Money, currency, is completely made-up and artificial. Don’t believe me? How many people don’t even carry physical cash on them anymore? You don’t need it to represent having money.
The government can utterly manipulate the numbers to “make” more money. If they actually gave a shit about you and me, instead of these half-assed stimulus checks, they’d offer a Universal Basic Income around $2k a month to get people contributing to the economy again.
Where would that money come from? The same made-up non-existent ethers it ALWAYS comes from. It is only lacking and scarce because those in power use it to control the rest of us.
But tangible, material things like money are not the only place where artificial lack and scarcity exist. They are also evident in the intangible.
