Weirdly Relaxed

The more awakened you get, the more you will notice that a lot of people seem to have some pscyhological attachment to their outrage.

This is not to suggest that lots of outrageous events are not going on right now. Except that I, at least, have trouble attributing to Trump sufficient cognitive ability to plan much of anything, one might think that Trump wants to cause as much outrage as possible.

He certainly understands nothing about our Constitution, why we have a constitution, or how ours is supposed to operate, and the good Christian Republicans who are in thrall to him have no intention of trying to explain it, which would not help because Trump does not learn.

In particular, his zeal to deport as many people as possible poses a profound threat to the right to due process of law, which applies to all “persons,” and so includes immigrants, including undocumented. To suggest that they are not persons is the dehumanization people have warned about since the Holocaust, since Nazis spent a lot of energy dehumanizing, or making not persons, their various targets for arbitrary imprisonment and death.

There is the famous story about Munindraji, a major teacher to such important U.S. Buddists as Sharon Salzeberg and Joseph Goldstein, whom Goldstein saw in a market in India haggling with a vendor over the price of a bag of peanuts. Goldstein…