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Written by Todd Goldfarb
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 07:18 |
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Hey Everyone,
I would like to share with you two incredible articles I have recently come across, both of which frame the current crises humanity and Planet Earth face very clearly.
The first piece was published in the New York Times, and establishes 2008 as the year of "The Great Disruption". It is encouraging to see such a big media player starting to connect the dots between the myriad of breakdowns we are witnessing, and shining light on the possibility that there are larger, fundamental shifts that need to occur:
The Great Disruption
The second article provided here is incredible, and offers solutions. Written by Monica Sharma M.D., Director of Leadership and Capacity Development at the United Nations, the piece begins "we are living in a time of whole system transition on a personal and planetary scale that affects every aspect of life as we know it":
Personal to Planetary Transformation
As one of the main people involved with the U.N.'s efforts of combating AIDS/HIV for the past 20 years, Monica is a shining example of someone not afraid to address the ROOT causes of our problems. Her passion is to spread knowledge that in order to properly deal with, and transcend, the world's challenges we need to connect our PERSONAL lives to external realities. Each of us must literally become "the change we want to see in the world".
I have had the honor to get to know Monica over the last several weeks, and her teaching methods of how to cause 'systematic change' is inspiring and timely.
If you are someone really interested in changing the world, and being a part of this Worldwide Tipping Point, read this article and start thinking about your area of influence as a system that needs to shift:
Read Monica's Article Here
Thank you so much, and if you find these articles useful please share this newsletter with your friends and family. Lets get the Tipping Point Counter to 100 Million in one year. Together we can make a BIG difference in the world!
In service,
Todd Goldfarb
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Written by Abby Schwartz
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Friday, 06 March 2009 13:17 |
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." – Buddha
or another version:
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." "Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it . . . or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings--that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." - The Buddha |
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Written by Susan Lundberg
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Friday, 06 March 2009 11:58 |
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"We need to practice meditation gently, but steadily, throughout daily life, not wasting a single opportunity or event to see deeply into the true nature of life, including our everyday problems. Practicing in this way, we dwell in profound communion with life." p. 18 PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York: Bantam Books, 1991.Â
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"Meditation is a point of contact. Sometimes you do not have to go to the place of suffering. You just sit quietly on your cushion, and you can see everything. You can actualize everything, and you can be aware of what is going on in the world. Out of that kind of awareness, compassion and understanding arise naturally, and you can stay right in your own country and perform social action." p. 126 PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York: Bantam Books, 1991.Â
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"Meditation is to look deeply into things and to see how we can change ourselves and how we can transform our situation. To transform our situation is also to transform our minds. To trnsform our minds is also to transform our situation, because the situation is mind, and mind is situation. Awakening is important. The nature of the bombs, the nature of injustice, and the nature of our own beings are the same." P. 112 PEACE IS EVERY STEP, Thich Nhat Hanh, New York: Bantam Books, 1991 |
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