The purpose....
The purpose of this blog is a serious one.
We want you to think differently about anything and everything you've ever thought of before.
Stereotypes, gut reactions, instincts, reflexes, everything. If you can look at something differently, maybe you'l be able to make a change for the better, a change that could help not just yourself, but all of us.
A Buddhist scholar wrote, "No one can disagree that the “inner” teachings and practices with lead to the self-transformation and emancipation are at the core of Buddhism. But if the insights and awareness these practices help develop are not applied throughout daily life – to our work, our relationships, and our responses to crisis near at hand and around the globe, then “selflessness” is a euphemism for selfishness and detachment an excuse for indifference."
I hope you'll come to believe this to be so - that if we confine ourselves to working for our own seperate good, no one benefits. But if we can reconginze the need for collective, communal social engagement, perhaps this world will turn around.
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