View this email in your browser. Forwarded by a dear friend? You can receive the Enzyme directly by subscribing here. Hello everyone, I hope you are well. It's hard to read the news these days and not be affected. As someone who writes often, I am well aware of the difficulty of reporting in emotionally challenging times like this. The news has to carry some emotional sparks, but so often the industry is skewed to sensationalize events because that hook our lizard brains, hijacking our attention and therefore money. Yet you can't hide away the heinous stories that happened either. How to write and communicate about those events then? The Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, whose teaching has touched so many and whose voice can easily bring tears to my eyes, was confronted with that same question too. He recalls such situation in his book,
How to tell difficult truths
How to tell difficult truths
How to tell difficult truths
View this email in your browser. Forwarded by a dear friend? You can receive the Enzyme directly by subscribing here. Hello everyone, I hope you are well. It's hard to read the news these days and not be affected. As someone who writes often, I am well aware of the difficulty of reporting in emotionally challenging times like this. The news has to carry some emotional sparks, but so often the industry is skewed to sensationalize events because that hook our lizard brains, hijacking our attention and therefore money. Yet you can't hide away the heinous stories that happened either. How to write and communicate about those events then? The Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, whose teaching has touched so many and whose voice can easily bring tears to my eyes, was confronted with that same question too. He recalls such situation in his book,