Thank you for this, Seth! I agree that we need to understand threefolding ideas ourselves before we can hope that politicians implement them. I am currently reading Farms of Tomorrow Revisited - Comunity Supported Farms - Farm Supported Communities by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden, 1997. The book is inspiring, describing many successful CSA's started by community members or farmers looking for healthier alternatives to 'conventional' farming. This book makes me realize that small groups of individuals can do a lot on a grassroots level and that their activism can influence society.
Once again, I urge us to work to find the lead element and set aside the formulaic "threefolding"
My take is that recognizing both oneself and the other human being as a cosmic co-creator in whatever stage of development is the lead element in a new politics -- where one wants justice to rise toward the level of karmic compassion and be available to everyone
Can't get a crappy politics out of self-and-other realization, can we?
Yes. “…where one wants justice to rise toward the level of karmic compassion…” An inner transformation of our bent towards Schadenfreude (get the bad you deserve) to Kindness. One of the most challenging questions In the Work of Byron Katie is: What’s the worst thing that could happen if you let it go or forgive them? A: They would get away with it.
Thank you for this, Seth! I agree that we need to understand threefolding ideas ourselves before we can hope that politicians implement them. I am currently reading Farms of Tomorrow Revisited - Comunity Supported Farms - Farm Supported Communities by Trauger Groh and Steven McFadden, 1997. The book is inspiring, describing many successful CSA's started by community members or farmers looking for healthier alternatives to 'conventional' farming. This book makes me realize that small groups of individuals can do a lot on a grassroots level and that their activism can influence society.
Amen, Seth
Thanks for writing this up. A voice of reason amid the fervor is balm for the soul.
miss you !
Well said....
Good work
Once again, I urge us to work to find the lead element and set aside the formulaic "threefolding"
My take is that recognizing both oneself and the other human being as a cosmic co-creator in whatever stage of development is the lead element in a new politics -- where one wants justice to rise toward the level of karmic compassion and be available to everyone
Can't get a crappy politics out of self-and-other realization, can we?
Yes. “…where one wants justice to rise toward the level of karmic compassion…” An inner transformation of our bent towards Schadenfreude (get the bad you deserve) to Kindness. One of the most challenging questions In the Work of Byron Katie is: What’s the worst thing that could happen if you let it go or forgive them? A: They would get away with it.
It's time to become matter-of-fact about reincarnation and karma
"They" don't "get away with it"; they burn away their own crap and come back to try to do better
All political systems are like rotten apples. Save some seeds if the tree once was good, no saving the current tree or apples.
It's fixed alright!
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-76947766?r=1nm0v2