Imposing our willingness to harm through projection of our harmful views and values onto others and the future furthers the omnicidal Western trajectory. Postponing acting upon our better intentions reflects our ignorance and complicity with what harms. To further life on Earth in ways that benefit all requires our complete attention and efforts to transform ourselves now. Read more
Decline and disintegration define old age. The natural changes of aging lead to death. In the same way, Western civilization approaches its collapse, its death. The growth of the Western capitalist system becomes increasingly disjointed and disunited. It has no way to prevent its collapse and every efforts to rekindle its growth only hastens it demise. The consensus among the power elite about how to advance Western capitalism fractures into opposing views that prevent meaningful communication. When growth stops, the capitalist system collapses. Read more
Having a joyful gratitude for the sacred path keeps us on it. While we will always have hardships and heartaches on the path, we also have the joy that comes from transforming our faults into knowing how to live as an Earth interbeing. We come to have a passion for living the path and pour our life energy into it. We have gratitude for our opportunities to further life on Earth. Read more.
The word humility derives from the Latin word humus, which means Earth. When we become more humble, we become more like the Earth. The humble sage brings to life the sacred ways by bearing and supporting all beings to further life on Earth. We become sages by constantly surrendering our self-centered will to benefit others. Through a compassionate understanding of the needs of others, we relieve the suffering of others and work to transform the conditions that cause suffering. In this way, we turn toward furthering life on Earth. Read more
Most on the path have an intellectual understanding of the equality of life. Yet for many Westerners on the path, living equally with others, life, and the Earth challenges us. When we do not live as equals, we prove our ignorance and act in ways that harm life on Earth. We feel that we know what others should do, judge others for being less than us, ignore the consequences of our actions upon the Earth Interbeing, and the list goes on. Those who believe in their superiority view all others as inferiors, even those closest to them. Everyone is less than me. The privileged on the sacred path have the great need to sacrifice their privileges. Read more
Every time we acted out our willingness to harm others for self-benefit by thought, word or deed, we know we have degraded ourselves and feel remorse for what we did. However, if we can catch ourselves having these harmful thoughts and urges to act just when they first surface in our awareness, we can quickly and easily recover from them. Right there at that moment, before we empower a compulsion by indulging it, we can pause, the all-important pause. Read more.
Indigenous People ask another being for their consent in the taking of its life to feed people. What would it feel like for another being to give Westerners that consent? We have a long, long history of taking from the Earth Interbeing without any intention of reciprocating. The Earth Interbeing knows us as thieves. Yet if we want to live as interbeings within the sacred Earth Interbeing, then we do need this consent to affirm our knowing their sacredness and to respect them as equals. Read more
To be in accord with the time, the compassionate offer themselves to transform the trajectory of our time because of the grave consequences if we do not. We must resist the dangerous temptation to stay within the apparent safety of knowing without acting on what we know. Only movement will get us out of this critically imbalanced time. By doing nothing or not enough, we lose all the fruits of our knowing. Though great, the compassionate have the capability of smallness and the flexibility to fulfill their responsibilities of caring for the Earth Interbeing. Read more
When we view our lives through Western eyes, we cannot imagine another way of living. Until we uproot our conditioned views, beliefs, and behaviors, the way forward to further life on Earth will remain invisible to us. Before we start coming up with the grand plan to replace Western capitalism, we need to stop thinking and acting like a Western capitalist. Read more
A Westerner views life as a child, as someone who does not comprehend the context of their lives within the imbalances of the Earth Interbeing that Western-style behavior causes. We look at what we want or don’t want superficially from our self-centered point of view and ignore the impacts our actions will have upon the wellbeing of others. Read more.
