readoldthings

This is a great meditation, thank you. This in particular:

One of the basic things that I was taught is to do something you hate as joyfully as you can because if you do, then you will see how silly your visceral likes and dislikes are and thus shed some karma in the process.

...is very helpful for me, particularly as I'm in the middle of a pile of government-required paperwork, which I (utterly, viscerally) hate!