Im not buddhist nor part of any organised religion but have studied most of them, (some of them from within), and see how much they include relevant and vital understanding that our rational minds, politics, economics and other social strategies and functioning too often lack and disregard as either impractical or impossible - which is understandable because when we look at a larger world only from our thinking within our boxes we too easily fear or loath and misunderstand what does not fit inside our particular box, inside which a destructive form of blind selfishness can start to grow masquerading unseen as logically proof and justified self-preservation at the expense of others (see Ayn Rand, Hitler, etc.), the collective tragedy of which we witness every day in our society of separation and blind individualism that forgets our collective reality of interconnectedness - in good and bad - that is constant regardless and beyond our individual points of view we do need each other, all and everything, directly and indirectly, everyone and everything serving specific purposes. only we need to work towards seeing the wholeness of this tapestry of connections even a little in order to appreciate each others positions and movements in/as it. and it is this genuine appreciation that will give birth to a better world, a better tapestry, not only for the strong at the expense of the weak, but for the whole of us as one. some traditions point towards how, as this linked article shows, with valuable well-rounded and digested understanding in the heart that is needed to balance the intellect in the head and the hand that on their own can only deal with facts, logic, hits and runs
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:53:51 +0000
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