- Who needs your offering most right now? Are they in a position to receive it?
- How is your offering related to your issues or activities also a gift of care for yourself?
- What concerns or worries you about your activity of offering?
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Sawyer Jisho Hitchcock
2/10/2021 09:10:38 am
Hi all -- Sitting here at the computer fresh from a viewing of Doju's Dharma talk from a few weeks back on Buddhism and politics. To bring forward one aspect of the talk: I've found that I've been grappling pointedly over the past several years with a sense of how the teaching of Right View might interact with our social/political engagement. Doju mentioned the view that a somewhat fundamental assumption of Western ideas about politics is the importance of one's own personal opinions being "correct." We could see this play out as hyper-loyalty to political party, or in a sense of the dukkha involved in broadcasting certainty about current issues on social media, or even in the prevalence of conspiracy theories (we are the ones who are Right in this false world, and that's important enough to commit violence to prove).
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Dennis McCarty
2/11/2021 11:03:07 am
I appreciate the gift of your rumination, Sawyer. I spend a lot of time in Yellowwood State Forest, and your concerns touch a chord with me. (Don't have a better solution than the one you provided yourself. But the question was sure worth living in for awhile.)
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Brian Flaherty
2/11/2021 04:44:43 pm
Thank you for these thoughts, Sawyer, and continuing the exploration of knowing when to act. It reminds me of a contra dance: it *is* possible to observe the moves from the side until you are confident you will know what to do . . . but alas, by then the dance would be over! At some point, you just have to step in.
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Brian Flaherty
2/11/2021 04:57:46 pm
Looking through the list of resources offered so far and dipping into a few of them, the first thing that arises in me is gratefulness for this sharing. As my free time comes in a thin stream these days, they will provide food for thought for years to come. THANK YOU.
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Mark Howell
2/12/2021 09:24:40 am
Timefullness
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Mark Hotoku Howell
2/13/2021 04:18:52 am
On Doubt
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Sawyer
2/16/2021 11:13:07 am
"It is also equally undeniable that there must be doubt as long as one does not understand or see clearly. But in order to progress further it is absolutely necessary to get rid of doubt. To get rid of doubt one has to see clearly."
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