Lords was awash with red yesterday on the second day of the Ashes Test Match. Red caps, red shirts and even red adverts marked the Ruth Strauss Foundation, which, as we’ve heard, former England captain Andrew Strauss has established to commemorate his wife, who died of lung cancer. As well as raising money for research, Strauss wants to encourage openness about death and grief, especially among men.Finding a measured response to suffering is one of the fundamental challenges that Buddhism identifies. The Buddha, himself, is a balanced figure who exemplifies compassionate gentleness but is also tough and heroic, abandoning comfort to confront life in its unvarnished truth. And his teachings suggest that the key to balanced emotional awareness is distinguishing different kinds of emotions.................
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