"Many people suffer deeply and they do not know they suffer. They try
to cover up the suffering by being busy. Many people get sick today
because they get alienated from Mother Earth.
The practice of
mindfulness helps us to touch Mother Earth inside of the body and this
practice can help heal people. So the healing of the people should go
together with the healing of the Earth. This is the insight and it is
possible for anyone to practice.
This kind of enlightenment is very crucial
to a collective awakening. In Buddhism we talk of meditation as an act
of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the Earth is in danger and
living species are in danger.
We have constructed a system we can’t control. It imposes itself on us,
and we become its slaves and victims. We have created a society in
which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we
are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to
be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our
planet Earth.
Activists have to have a spiritual practice in
order to help them to suffer less, to nourish the happiness and to
handle the suffering so they will be effective in helping the world."
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