Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Assuming Our Role in Indra's Net (Earth Day 2011) | Sweeping Zen

Assuming Our Role in Indra's Net (Earth Day 2011) | Sweeping Zen: "Or, alternatively, do we try to control and modify theses flows to our own advantage through the attachment, aversion, or indifference of our personal self? Do we greedily hoard those flows which provide us wealth, status, or, that validate our opinions and narratives, and push away those interactions that we don’t like or that we view as antagonistic?  And, in some cases, do we simply ignore what is flowing through the present moment of our node, e.g. the crying child, the beggar asking for money, the owner of the car with the flat tire parked on the shoulder of the road?"

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