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.
It
is hard to be generous, disciplined, or patient if we are not fully
present. If we are present and attentive, and our mind is flexible, we
are more receptive to the environment around us.
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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