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Jeffrey Fracher

Our Suffering Is Not a Private Matter (and what it costs the people standing nearest)
Jeffrey Fracher recounts a friend's experience to highlight how dukkha often "doesn't stay inside us. It moves through us, into the room, and onto whoever happens to be standing closest."
The Judge in the Room (and why it is important)
Jeffrey Fracher encourages practitioners to embrace a morality based on mindfulness, compassion, and the Middle Way between rigid absolutism and nihilism.
Practical Dharma
Jeffrey Fracher discusses how the combined and overlapping tools of the dharma and modern psychology provide us with a Practical Dharma, a way to change our relationship with suffering while acknowledging its inevitability.