A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day 09/04/2016
“Com as brutais mudanças a que já estão ocorrendo no planeta, talvez
até mesmo algumas das nossas tradições sociais e culturais precisem ser
revisadas, porque elas deixarão de fazer sentido. Se a natureza passa a
funcionar de outra maneira, isso vai gerar um descompasso ainda maior
entre os nossos hábitos e os fenômenos naturais. E isso é uma das
consequências da nossa total desconexão com a natureza. É a nossa falta de naturalidade se manifestando nela.”
“Con los brutales cambios que están sucediendo en el planeta, tal vez
hasta algunas de nuestras tradiciones sociales y culturales necesiten
ser revisadas, porque dejarán de tener sentido. Si la naturaleza pasa a
funcionar de otra manera, esto va a generar un desajuste aún mayor entre
nuestros hábitos y los fenómenos naturales. Y esto es una de las
consecuencias de nuestra total desconexión con la naturaleza. Es nuestra
falta de naturalidad manifestándose en ella.”
“In lieu of the brutal changes that are already taking place on our planet, it may be time to revise some of our social and cultural traditions as they no longer make sense in this era. Nature is acting in totally unprecedented patterns, due to our habits that treat the environment as something entirely disconnected from ourselves. We disregard our inner nature, and that gets reflected all too clearly in Mother Nature herself.
“In lieu of the brutal changes that are already taking place on our planet, it may be time to revise some of our social and cultural traditions as they no longer make sense in this era. Nature is acting in totally unprecedented patterns, due to our habits that treat the environment as something entirely disconnected from ourselves. We disregard our inner nature, and that gets reflected all too clearly in Mother Nature herself.
Via Daily Dharma / April 9, 2016: One Thing, Then Another
You
may say, "I must do something this afternoon," but actually there is no
"this afternoon." We do things one after the other. That is all.
—Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, "Breathing"
—Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, "Breathing"
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