Christina's Blog!: Question of the Day: "Are You Always Teacher Feng?...

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Christina's Blog!: Question of the Day: "Are You Always Teacher Feng?...: "Yesterday evening, one of my favorite students asked me an interesting question in my classroom. 'Are you always Teacher Feng?' I asked for..."

from facebook to whinebook: Resilience of the Human Spirit

Pre-Script: I wonder if spirited drinks help or hurt said resilience of spirit.

Does anyone ever question the way this idea is framed? So admirable, so inspirational. We must all strive to be the strongest, bestest most resilientest peoples..est.

Is anyone else tired of being resilient? It kind of feels like BS. The only thing that has helped me with this is the Buddhist sand mandala ceremony. They spend so much time and effort into creating this beautiful piece of art, and then they wash it away when it's done. It's meant to symbolize the impermanence of every conditional thing, or something like that. I like it because the idea isn't that "well if our mandala is destroyed, we'll just have to try hader and build a better one" - it's just accepted that this is how things work. Maybe I can accept that. I don't think I have the energy to commit to the whole "be better, stronger" thing. It does seem likely, in fact rather certain, that everything I create will perish so I guess I need to take more satisfaction out of the process and not the final product? That seems so contrary to the dominant western view though (except for the new-agey "it's the journey, not the destination" quote).