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FIELDS: In Buddhist centers the term is often used as a joke. When anything you don’t like or want happens people say, “That’s good for your practice.” Any disaster that happens is good for your practice. Which is obviously true, but it’s sort of like, “Oh yeah, well, why don’t you do this and it would be good for your practice.” It’s annoying if it’s an automatic response and not really being with what the person is experiencing. Maybe it’s good for your practice, but it might be bad for your life. You’re talking about something that can kill you. This opens up so many different kinds of questions of surrender and acceptance and fighting. My first reaction was “all hands on deck” because this cancer had been misdiagnosed for over a year and had become very dangerous, so I had to do something pretty aggressive and drastic. But you never know what’s going to happen. You could have a car accident on your way to some wonderful healer. “Death comes without warning. This body will be a corpse.”