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.
Monday, January 16, 2017
Via Daily Dharma / In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day...
There’s
nothing about birth or social status that makes a person good or bad.
People are good or bad solely in terms of their actions, and so that’s
how they should be judged—not by the color of their skin.
—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "What the Buddha Taught Us About Race"
—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "What the Buddha Taught Us About Race"
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