Good morning!
Our sittings on Saturday see the brilliant sunlight. So, the candlelight usually brightening the dark room seems comparatively dim, and much less so the incense firelight. There is no exception in our related and relative world.
This morning’s NY Times op-ed article titled “Decline of American Exceptionalism,” by Charles Blow, talked about the declining superiority complex index and meaning of the “shining city upon a hill.”
It encouraged kindling the light of culture. We, however, must distinguish culture from civilization. Civilization is fighting for power and matter with militarism, materialism, and me-ism.
Culture is cultivation of our mind, body, and environment in truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness, which are limitlessly cultivated and verified by all together with all in peace and prognosis.
We cannot grow limitlessly in civilization within the limits of the global life system. We, however, can grow in culture in limitless light, liberation, and love. Let us enjoy limitless life and share it with all.
11/19/11
