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MAHAYANA:
PHILOSOPHY for SUSTAINABILITY.
(The following reflects author's own understanding of the terms
"Mahayana" and "Bodhisattva").
Mahayana is a
view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena
across all time and all space; a view that posits that any one's
well-being depends on the well-being of every other one across all
time and all space.
A Bodhisattva is one who strives to realize the ideal of Mahayana,
and therefore regards the well-being of all other beings as
important as one's own well-being.
To live ecologically and socially sustainably means to acknowledge
the need of all other beings to live as well as one would like to
live well also.
Thus the need for living ecologically and socially sustainably is
implicit in Mahayana.
Therefore--an aspiring Bodhisattva would help all beings, starting
with all beings that there are here and now (for here and is there
always), to be mentally and physically optimally well--with no
beings favored, with no beings left behind--and therefore an
aspiring Bodhisattva would promote the way of living fully
ecologically and socially sustainably.
IMPORTANT!:
The reason that humanity has not become ecologically and socially
sustainable yet, and that there still is no lasting world peace in
evidence, is that we all wish, meditate and pray for different
things in this regard.
What is
needed is to create a unified idea of what living ecologically and
socially, and what a lasting world peace should actually be like,
so that we all aim for the same thing!
More on how to unify all the diverse ideas of what what
ecologically and socially humanity, and what a lasting world peace
should actually be like, please visit Designing the Future
of the Earth Together, and Designing
a Lasting World Peace Collectively, where I am trying to
introduce a concept of designing the future of the Earth
collaboratively.
MEDITATION:
Find, or imagine that there is, a mental space in which all the
ideas of what anyone might think that their future should look like
would be reconciled with the ideas of all others, so that conflicts
in real life would be prevented from occurring.
PRAYER:
May all differences, all controversies, and all conflicts that
there are in the world among all beings resolve harmlessly by the
virtue of all wholesome meditations, all wholesome prayers, all
wholesome wishes and intentions; may those differences and
conflicts resolve peacefully in models, or/and by using
what-so-ever wholesome, expedient, and effective means!
May humans become ecologically and socially fully and truly
transparently sustainable (and may they stay so forever!) for their
own good, and for the benefit of all those beings who suffer
unnecessarily only because of humans!
May we have good sustainable homes for ourselves, all our children,
all our families, our friends, and our ohana!
Please dedicate your practice to the optimal benefit of all beings
of all three times and ten directions of space, starting here and
now on Earth.
Links:
Designing a Lasting World
Peace Collectively
Designing the Future
Together
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