Good morning!
Still sittings make us holy (wholly wholesome) and harmonious. I forwarded the speech Noam Chomsky gave at Riverside Church on January 5th at the 20th anniversary celebration of Democracy Now! to many groups and individuals. He warned that we now face unprecedented threats to survival: nuclear war and environmental catastrophe. It is urgent that we respond without delay, and more urgent on November 8th, that we face these threats directly and soon to avoid a disastrous failure of the human experiment.
This is due to human karma, creating the five fictitious sins of self, society, state, species, and symbolism, adapted from Bacon’s four idola of cave, agora, theater, and species. Humans take them as idols, blindly believing and sacrificing sanctity. Karma caused self-survival strife, creating self-centered sins, making mini-max mistakes, self-supreme superstitions, fatal failure fictions. Sin is sapiens’ separation, selfishness, sickness, and suffering of all.
The solution of such lies in sitting still, stilling karma, seeing dharma, serving, and saving all. People don’t know karma, much less that all are karma-machines, much less how to cease and cultivate it. They don’t realize nirvana, much less that all can attain it, much less how to serve and save all. It is now urgent, can’t be delayed, to let them know and realize nirvana and awaken in it, and live the awakened life together with all in holy harmony, health, and happiness.
How can we serve and save all? We may consider the five Cs: commit, conquer, communicate, cooperate, and coexist. We must first commit to cultivation in the awakened way with the threefold learning, four holy truths, six perfections, eight holy paths, etc. and conquer bad karmas, communicate, cooperate, and coexist with all always in all possible ways so that we achieve a paradigm shift from karma to dharma, ego to eco, sin to holiness, etc.
1/8/17
A mushroom cloud (photo: medium, from Reader Supported News)