A screen can make distant suffering visible without making responsibility equally clear.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

You can see suffering from anywhere now, in detail, continuously. What the screen cannot supply is any sense of what, specifically, you are able to do, so awareness and helplessness arrive together and the result is often numbness rather than action.

Rather than trying to hold everything, pick one or two things where you can act concretely and do that regularly. Then let yourself look away from the rest without treating it as a moral failure. Diffuse guilt about everything reliably produces less help than a narrow commitment does.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What suffering have you watched without knowing what to do?

MORE IN PERCEPTION & ATTENTION

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