Furthering Life on Earth

When we act upon an urgent compulsion to have our way, we harmfully impose our will upon others or to influence a situation. Overcoming a compulsive reaction requires us not to act on the urge to harm others for self-benefit. When first aware of an entanglement with a compulsive reaction, we pause, the all-important pause. Within the pause, we turn to investigate our intentions before we act.  Read more

For the past 300 years, capitalism has promised that increasing the availability of material goods will increase our wellbeing. All along, some have questioned the link between money and wellbeing. Now we know that pursuing more than we need imperils life and Earth. We get the opposite of wellbeing when we indulge every whim, desire, and comfort. Read more

Compulsive reactivity harms us, others, all life, and the Earth. When we act in ways that deny our sacredness and values, we cause only ruin for ourselves and others, generating an even more threatening and difficult situation. It brings to life our willingness to harm others for self-benefit and then ignores the suffering we cause. In the aftermath of reacting harmfully, we know how we have harmed as we experience the consequences of our actions.   Read more…

Estrangement occurs within families when members need to push away from each other to give themselves space to grow and become. While family members have much in common, we all have unique differences. When parents value some differences more than others, families become unequal and divided into the camps of better than or less than. This opens to comparison, judgement, and hierarchy. Within the Earth Interbeing, life celebrates differences as diversity strengthens community. Viewing each other through our strengths rather than our faults unleashes the power of a family mutually interacting in ways that further the family.  Read more

Life has much in common. All life works to obtain the basic needs to survive – food, water, wellbeing,  children, safety, and rest. Most cultures have a deep gratitude and joy for having what we need to live another day, another year. Within hierarchic cultures, however, the plague of ever greater inequality denies those lower on the hierarchy survival basics and urges the privileged to consume more than we need.

The well-being of the Earth Interbeing depends rebalancing the access to basic needs life has for survival. Western capitalism will not do this for us. Thus, we do it for ourselves and for all life through self-discipline.  Read more

Life warns of an imbalance. Our sensations of thirst and hunger warn us that we need water and food. We refrain from drinking water or food that tastes, smells, or looks bad. Rising inequality, divisiveness, and turmoil signal a destabilizing society. Increasing levels of cancers, metabolic and heart disease, and birth defects warn us of an imbalances in what we eat and how we live. Rising levels of carbon dioxide lead us to change the ways we live. Climbing species extinction rates warn us that we make the Earth uninhabitable.

The Earth Interbeing speaks to us through these warning. We communicate with the Earth Interbeing  through the language of how we respond to imbalances.  Read more..

The Western culture has a long history of willingly harming others for self-benefit and ignoring the suffering it has caused. Western history opens with the theft of land from the Indigenous people by European colonialists and their subsequent efforts to destroy the Indigenous culture. The great crimes against life continued with the theft of labor from kidnapped Africans who the white colonialists enslaved to extract wealth from the land they stole. The abominations of Western culture continue today through its willingness to destroy all life and the Earth for profit.  Read more

Delusion stands between knowing the sacredness of all life and the Earth and living sacredness. We may conceptually understand the sacredness of life and the Earth, but we cannot know how to sacredly interact with others until we deeply know and live our own sacredness. The sacred path moves us to that knowing, to awaken from the delusion of separation.   Read more

If we do not understand the situation, we do not know what to do. Acting when confused causes more confusion and harms us, others, and the Earth. Western culture ignorantly denies the sacredness of the Earth Interbeing and willingly harms other beings and the Earth for self-benefit. We now experience the enormous suffering and a planet in peril as the consequences of our omnicidal behavior.  Read more

We don’t ask for problems. They come to us, happen to us, often as a surprise. When they come, they disturb and unsettle us. Problems require us to solve them. Solving a problem requires a change, an action. We may see the required change as an imposition to do something we do not want to do, a limit or deprivation. All of which goes toward explaining why we avoid solving problems.  Read more