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August 17, 2012

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Global Warming: A Case for Inner Change

“Alarming data and warnings about climate change have been with us for twenty years. The issue has morphed into something like a low-level toothache. […] If human nature is to evolve, a new set of assumptions would look something like the following: Human life isn’t set apart from life on earth. We must live in balance with Nature. Consumerism isn’t unlimited and doesn’t lead to happiness. Toxic pollution harms life and cannot be justified. As a conscious species, humans must be stewards of the ecology. None of these are surprising ideas; they are common coin in the environmental movement. But to make them viable on a mass scale, the tide must turn. Will that happen? No one can tell, but it’s important to see that the world “out there” has no chance of changing until there’s real transformation ‘in here.'” Deepak Chopra shares further. { read more }

Be The Change

In this short passage, Masanobu Fukuoka, shares his thoughts on aligning with nature through “Do Nothing Farming.” { more }

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EMPTINESS AND NON-EXISTENCE

The doctrines of emptiness and selflessness do not imply the non-existence of things. Things do exist.

When we say that all phenomena are void of self-existence, it does not mean that we are advocating non-existence,

that we are repudiating that things exist. Then what is it we are negating? We are negating, or denying, that

anything exists from its own side without depending on other things. Hence, it is because things depend for

their existence upon other causes and conditions that they are said to lack independent self-existence.