[seodiary]

from post #12

Hello plogsties dear,

As with your daughter, this work has given me so much understanding about acceptance and things as they are. It has been a very hard and meaningfull experience for me, my practice of the Dharma and the way I am understanding life facts.

The job is hard, the environment of my workplace is hard too, but as your daughter, I have found in the women and in the jailers good qualities what I can call the Buddha Nature.

I am a cultural anthropologyst and I am there because a research proyect about "Cultural Accepted Violence" but I am trying to have be hire there as a woker. Fot that I am planing to do a Social Psychology degree.

In Zen tradition we are told and we have to learn and practice about the non existence of good or bad in life and also with people. We are told to learn and practice the understanding that nobody is neither good nor bad at all and even the most evil situation or person we meet is a teaching. That any kind of situation or choice we took in our life is also a teaching, part of our spiritual path. Also that there are no wrong or right choices because if we took them, then it has been taken and that is a learning any time we are aware of it and its consecuences. This is a very Chan/Zen attitude toward life.

The women I am attending for the proyect purposes are learning... maybe much more about an spiritual path that many other people.

This work has been a wonderfull, hard, difficult and touching experience I have had in my life.

Thansk for shearing your daughter's experience.