Compassion - an infinity of teaching in a short piece
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Roger Prentice // Current project STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
BLOG TITLE: - SunWALKing!
'Smile, breathe and go slowly!' (Thich Nhat Hahn) whilst SunWALKing toward OneSummit!
Walking toward 'the summit' we tread our path, sometimes alone, and from time to time with others. As we converse with fellow-travellers, as we enter dia-logos, we learn from each other.
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One summit - many paths!
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Each of us has those who help illumine the path we tread.
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SunWALKing = walking with your 'sun' - whatever, & whoever, lights your path!
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So within and around my model, SunWALK, I'm celebrating the human spirit - listening to those who feed my soul. Join in or eavesdrop!
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Those who illumine my path most are Abdu'l-Baha, Karen Armstrong, Terry Eagleton, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber - and many other of the poets and philosophers in our intellectual & spiritual 'starry firmament'. Oh - and those great healers called comedians.
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But SunWALKing - is a life-streaming blog - so it includes the deliciously silly as well as the shatteringly profound!
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THE THEMES in this life-stream then are the arts, photography, New Politics & Social Justice, philosophy (especially educational), pan-religious spirituality, personal development, coaching, media - and exposing the curse of fundamentalism.
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MY GUIDING FOCUS is developing further my human-centred studies model called SunWALK - for use in professional and development. A summary is here - http://sunwalked.wordpress.com/courses/the-heart-of-all-of-the-courses-deepen... />.
So within and around SunWALK I'm celebrating the human spirit. Join me, walk a while, and sit at the wayside table as I listen to those who whisper their wisdom and insights over my shoulder - Heschel, Wilber, Armstrong, Tolle and the others - and join me in asking questions about how these great teachers approach the issues of being, of being in the world with others!
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VISIT MY OTHER SITES - described here - http://sunwalked.wordpress.com/my-sites-and-their-connections
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You may remember that there was a time when apartheid in South Africa seemed unstoppable.
Sure, there were international boycotts of South African businesses, banks, and tourist attractions. There were heroic activists in South Africa, who were going to prison and even dying for freedom. But the conventional wisdom remained that these were principled gestures with little chance of upending the entrenched system of white rule.
“Be patient,” activists were told. “Don’t expect too much against powerful interests with a lot of money invested in the status quo.”
With hindsight, though, apartheid’s fall appears inevitable: the legitimacy of the system had already crumbled. It was harming too many for the benefit of too few. South Africa’s freedom fighters would not be silenced, and the global movement supporting them was likewise tenacious and principled.
In the same way, the legitimacy of rule by giant corporations and Wall Street banks is crumbling. This system of corporate rule also benefits few and harms many, affecting nearly every major issue in public life. Some examples:Some interesting comments about this - click through to YouTube
Maria Friedlander, Southwestern United States, 1969
II. Lee Friedlander (b. 1934)
Lisette Model said, “There is nothing so mysterious as a fact clearly presented.” Lee Friedlander’s photographs are both clear and mysterious.
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Here is a link to his most recent book
The Science Delusion
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Delusion-Rupert-Sheldrake/dp/1444727923/ref=s...
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry, By Rupert Sheldrake
Friday, 6 January 2012Science is wonderful and necessary - one of the great creations of humankind. Most importantly, it is helping us to see just how extraordinary life and the universe really are, far exceeding the unaided imagination even of the greatest poets. At its best, too, science lives up to its own mythology: a disinterested, self-effacing search after truth, carried out by people of humility in true generosity of spirit. As a fairly considerable bonus it has led us to create a wide range of "high" (science-based) technologies that have improved the lives of a great many people, and have the potential to help all humankind and our fellow creatures too.
But alas, in large measure, science and the idea of it have been seriously corrupted. That some of its high technologies are not in the general good is all too obvious – although it isn't always obvious which ones are and which ones aren't. Even more to the point, and in some ways more serious, is that science all too often becomes the enemy of what it should stand for. Although it must have rules and methods – in particular, the ideas of science must be testable – it should be open-minded. It should go where the data lead. That's what the myth says it does do – but the reality is very different.
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