Hatred only leads to more hatred. You must accept the police as you would accept your family. At first the police may seem like the enemy but they are not. They’re just part of the system you are trying to change. Someday they may protect the system you help build. When you have armored...
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Can America Allow Mercenaries To Control Congress And The Senate?
I have been interested in and lightly following the Occupy Wall Street movement for almost two months. But something changed a couple days ago. I watched the New York Police raid the Occupy Wall Street village. Now the whole movement has become more interesting. I have spent more and more time thinking about how...
Struggle and Effort – Don’t Give Up
When things aren’t going so well don’t give up. Life is struggle and effort. Life is difficult and extreme competition makes things even tougher. I will use my Dog Days of Summer group as an example. This first round of offering the program publically is not going so well. I have invested much of...
The Art of Living a Good Life
Self cultivation – education, training, and development of our emotional and cognitive abilities To live a good life includes what in Buddhism is called the eight fold path. The eight fold path consists of the right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. We need...