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Mahayana:
Philosophy for Sustainability.
Mahayana is a
view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena
across all time and all space; a view that posits that any- and
every-one's well-being depends on the well-being of every other
being's 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 beings--all beings without an exception--to
live as well as possible.
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 now 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 transparently sustainably.
To live "transparently sustainably" is necessary in order that
should ever anything start becoming non-sustainable, it would be
spotted and corrected soon at the start.
"Transparency" in this case could be (for working purposes) defined
thus: the younger a child to understand any supposedly sustainable
ecologically and/or social process would be, the more a chance
there is that such a process would indeed be sustainable.
There is too much unnecessary suffering in the world today
inflicted by humans on themselves and many other beings in the
whole world today.
Benefiting all beings in "all three times and ten directions of
space" has to start here and now!, or it will never happen
any other time, nor any other place.
Here and now is forever--in "all three times and ten directions of
space".
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, all conflicts, and all
complaints that there are in the world among all beings be resolved
harmlessly in meditations, by prayers, in models, and/or by using
what-so-ever wholesome, expedient, and effective means!
May all of these above be resolved by the merit of all Mahayana actions--Bodhisattvas' practices!
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 with the
optimal benefit of all beings here and now on Earth.
This article is based on numerous teachings that I had the fortune
to receive from Tibetan Buddhist teachers for over the last more
than thirty years, on what I had studied about Mahayana on my own,
on my personal realizations, and on my reading about and practicing
ideas (for over the last twenty years) of Robert Fritz' as he wrote
about them in The Path of Least Resistance.
All the views and opinions in this article are mine
Links:
Designing a Lasting World
Peace Collectively
Designing the Future
Together
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