I recently read an article on implicit bias and modern prejudice. If you think you are free from acting with prejudice, think again.
As the author of the article aptly puts the question: Whom are we not helping?
This is also an apt way of framing the practice question. When we stop to help in the spirit of the Great Vow – All Beings, One Body, I Vow To Liberate – may we also stop and ask ourselves: Whom are we not helping? In this way, may we avoid reinforcing norms and boundaries and patterns that harm rather than liberate.
The article can be found here: What does modern prejudice look like?
Thank you for your practice! Thank you for working to end suffering in all the obvious and subtle ways it arises!
A line I always liked was, “Just because you are indispensable to the universe does not mean the universe needs your help.”