We are all part of the flowing of #dharma to this place and time, and we need to ask ourselves, what is missing? For me, what is missing is attention to core issues of social #justice—namely, #inequality in our communities and our world and the ravaging of our #earth. When we talk about #diversity, it is usually about our sanghas. Somehow we complacently ignore the incarceration of minority youth, illegal immigrants, and the poor. We talk about #generosity, but usually in terms of fortifying dharma assets rather than addressing the inequality of wages and opportunity that we see around us. We are worried that the distractions of Internet media are distorting the focus of the intellectual class, but we may also be ignoring the chasm growing between those who have #access to these distractions and those who do not. Of course, none of us can address all of these issues, but in our teaching and study of the dharma, we need to recognize the structural suffering that exists in this moment and in this place where the #buddhadharma is flowing. ---Enkyo Pat OHara thebuddhadharma/web-archive/2014/8/12/commentary-which-river-will-you-cross.html
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 16:34:38 +0000
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