Clearing And Wising

Andrew Taggart
21 min readOct 26, 2020

Preamble

The question I ask in this long form essay is: “Why are people not kinder to one another and to all sentient beings? Why, indeed, is not kindness the default mode?”

And the answer I come to is this one: we are not clear and we are not wise.

I’d like to take you on the path that brought me here.

Introduction

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Andrew Taggart

Practical Philosopher, Ph.D. | Meditation Teacher | Zen Buddhist | Proponent of Self-inquiry (https://andrewjtaggart.com)