The Buddha defined our current situation in the first of the four great truths: "suffering surrounds us on all sides." Illness of the body and myriad social ills have made themselves achingly real in the past several months. The pandemic and the relentless, centuries-old oppression of Blacks in America have served as a wake-up call to the second great truth: "all suffering has a cause." By seeking causes of personal disease through medical science and of social disease through historical analysis, the remedy provided by Yoga can be found: cultivation of behaviors that decrease suffering and increase wholeness.