avalokitesvara
bodhisattva
- Nov 28, 2024
- 116
I have so many reasons and it's hard to put them all together coherently. I think my brain doesn't work as well as it used to. So here I can post them in fragments.
If you want to comment, feel free.
Here's the first one:
If you want to comment, feel free.
Here's the first one:
I can't abide the suffering in this world. A buddhist monk dedicates their practice to the good of all sentient beings. I do have faith in this vow. If I dedicate myself to practicing peace, goodness, and non-attachment, I do believe there is a ripple. I wish all people would be moved by the same desire. To give up their desires, to give up their consumption, to give up their terrified clinging to their small self and their small identifications. I wish we could shed all that and come together in harmony and share peace and tranquility together. For all of us, for the world. I wish each of us would stop identifying with ourselves and start identifying with all others, with Other. For if we were all to do that violence and exploitation would cease. For you would know that if you hurt me you are really hurting yourself. We'd know that when we help others we help ourselves. We wouldn't predate each other any more, and those who cannot predate would stop being prey. We would be true human beings, true adults. Mutually beneficial life, mutually beneficial world. Taking what is necessary to take, and giving what is necessary to give.
Living in a monastery is a microcosm of a world like this. I dream that one day the whole world will be the same. I know it is a long long long way off. If I can't live in the microcosm world of peace and harmony, I will choose to leave the world entirely. Because I cannot participate in the hell of predator and prey, consumption and exploitation, alienation and opioidal entertainment that the world currently is and is only hurtling ever forward into.
Living in a monastery is a microcosm of a world like this. I dream that one day the whole world will be the same. I know it is a long long long way off. If I can't live in the microcosm world of peace and harmony, I will choose to leave the world entirely. Because I cannot participate in the hell of predator and prey, consumption and exploitation, alienation and opioidal entertainment that the world currently is and is only hurtling ever forward into.
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