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Rochie Joan Halifax has said, I am not a nice Buddhist. I'm much more interested in a kind

of plain rice get down in the street Buddhism. She is a Zen teacher and a medical anthropologist

who's been formed by cultures from the Sahara Desert to the hallways of American prisons.

She founded the project on being with dying. Now she's taking on the problem of compassion

fatigue, though she doesn't like that phrase. Whatever you call it, for all of us overwhelmed

by bad news and by the attention we want to pay to suffering in the world, Joan Halifax

has wisdom. I think what we're seeing actually is not compassion

fatigue, but empathic distress where there's a resonance and yet we can't do anything about

it. When we are more stabilized that we can face the world with more buoyancy, more capacity

to address these very profound social and environmental issues. So that's why I call these

things edge states because they really call us to our edge. I'm Krista Tippett and this

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