Ideas from Joanna Macy

Systems Scientist and Buddhist Scholar Joanna Macy asks the question, "How can we live in a way that allows our system to work as well as it can?" Here, "system" can mean family, neighborhood, cooperative, watershed, state, nation, or planet earth. In answer, Macy offers the following Guidelines of Intention.…
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Earth Holders’ Heart Sutra–Part Four

This post continues the discussion of my revisions to the classic Buddhist text, The Heart of the Prajanaparamita. You will find the revised text--The Earth Holders' Heart Sutra--below in Part Two. It was Einstein who described matter as energy, without a separate self. Today, the more deeply scientists look into…
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