Living with the Truth of Craving

Published: July 8, 2020, 4 p.m.

The second noble truth is the truth that craving (tanha) creates and compounds our suffering. How do we understand the difference between unwholesome craving and wholesome desire? How can our experiences with the pandemic and white supremacy help us to understand these energies? I explore these questions and more and also read a poem from Matty Weingast's adaptation of the Therigatha: The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns