Transforming Suffering into Compassion, by Andrew Sono Tootell

We often view life as a problem to be solved – we are either living a successful life, a good life, or we feel we are a failure at living. We might try one self-improvement project after another, and they can work for a certain period of time. But in the end, we cannot escape the inevitable – impermanence and interdependence. Impermanence and interdependence are experienced often as suffering – and when we resist impermanence and interdependence, we add another layer of suffering from our attempt to separate out from the fact that we are embedded in life and relationships with other human beings that ultimately, we cannot control. The alternative to viewing life as a problem is to view life as a koan to be lived to the full.

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Transforming Suffering into Compassion, by Andrew Sono Tootell is an episode from Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast by OzZen.

This episode is 00:47:45 long.

This episode was published on Oct 26, 2025.

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