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.
Compassionate
action is a path on which we grow in awareness and insight. As we grow,
we become purer instruments for change. We become hollow reeds for the
healing music of life.
It
is essential at the beginning of practice to acknowledge that the path
is personal and intimate. It is no good to examine it from a distance as
if it were someone else’s. You must walk it for yourself.