Confronting Uncertainty currently with Lama Surya Das

Every morning I wake to trust, nonrational as it may seem; hope for a additional civilized world, for kinder, gentler organizations as well as social systems, and concomitant best wishes for all our over-used, mistreated, in addition to slowly succumbing planet.

To help you muster the force expected to confront the difficulties of our own complicated globe, I depend on what Buddhist activists call the three freedoms: Independence from excessive hope & anticipations; Liberty from fear & anxiety; and Freedom from selfishness & prejudice. Ah, absolutely yes: even though it's hard for an old dog, lama or not, to discover fresh methods: undo old egocentric preoccupations and bias; as well as step away from the natural tendency to overlook and also deny the actual scientific as well as socioeconomic facts of life---while simple-mindedly dreaming about the best, voting with my gut, and also supposing it shall be and be well.

Action is required in addition to much better schooling, listening, communication, and also dialogue. We should instead focus on properly channeling our energy in addition to practical efforts towards transforming a lot of cracked social systems.

I personally hardly ever think about in on our difficult, self-indulgent political arena, but of late I feel a sense of despair with each and every offensive ad along with overzealous news report-- not that we've not viewed similar undignified sparring in the past. Yet they're to some degree dirtier, much more underhanded and also venal, it also seems to me; clouded by continual negative overtones, low innuendo and also mounting harmful voices. As my dear bubbe would likely say, "Oy Vey! Gott im Himmel!"

Buddhism shows that nothing is more unsafe than an unaccustomed or maybe unhealthy mind, certainly nothing more ideal for great wellness than just a well-trained, clear along with developed mind. Suitable action might be a way of reaching someone's targets. Practicing patient forbearance when confronted with harm and also abuse, without being exceedingly passive in our pacifism, we see that nonviolence is and could be a dynamic multi-dimensional way of persuasion, a procedure for political activism, along with a recipe for peacemaking along with harmonizing---a fearless and also intense lifestyle authentically as well as speaking truth to power. Suitable action is equal to right morality, it holds with it a sensation of discerning perception, precision as well as skilled means.

May consists of the full moon day when Buddhists typically celebrate the particular Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. This could transpire today, or any day, for those who open their inner wisdom eye in addition to fourth ear of true listening to hear the actual plaintiff cries of our beleaguered world and confronted species, in addition to wake up jointly.

Buddha's well-known Eightfold Noble Path is the world's most seasoned extant business plan-the business being happiness, fulfillment and also well-being-- and would be properly applied to this particular destructive arena we call our political system.
But, oh-- Life's wonderful.
And yet, and yet...

With Love and blessings,
Lama Surya Das

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