Gandhi, Character Building, Truth-Telling, continued
Yesterday we meditated on Gandhi’s warning about character building and truth telling and its importance for the very survival of human society. This seems especially
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Yesterday we meditated on Gandhi’s warning about character building and truth telling and its importance for the very survival of human society. This seems especially
We ended yesterday’s meditation with the fifth and sixth of Gandhi’s “social sins,” that of educating without character building and science without humanity. The latter includes inventions like
In yesterday’s DM we shared Mahatma Gandhi’s list of “seven social sins” that are “internal forces” that can crash society. Drawing on his wisdom, we might
We are meditating on empires and colonialism and religions’ complicity in both. Englanders sometimes raise the story that some Africans themselves were in league with
Will our times be remembered as an Age of Reckoning? That may be the case and the reckoning that is occurring may begin to explain why
The current Supreme Court has devolved into a vile experience of Political Nothingness. Political hacks and religious quacks have reduced it to an intellectual joke and
We have been meditating on some of the many meanings of Nothingness. Today, August 6, 2022, is the 77th anniversary of the nothingness rendered by the atomic
Behind the violence in our time so visible in men hiding behind assault weapons and killing 19 children in grade school; or killing 10 black
Following are some exercises to stand up to the malicious forces that can gather at the seventh chakra. 1. Regarding sectarianism, what have you done
In yesterday’s meditation, we spoke about idolatry. Thomas Merton offered some insights about idolatry in our day that, with time, have proven to be powerfully prophetic.
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