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.
When
you are a good flower arranger, you give each flower enough space. A
flower needs space around her in order to radiate her beauty, her
freshness. Therefore, you don’t need a lot of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh, “Peace as a Path: Five Exercises”
Author
John Peacock discusses why for too many, Buddhist practice is a retreat
into a quietism that ignores the pressing social and political
realities of our time. Political discussion, in the author’s view, must
find its way into the Dharma Hall and be made integral to our everyday
practice.
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