[Grieryaliny]

Dear friends,

I was looking at this article and wondered if anyone had any comments.

"Why the Buddha Touched the Earth" by John Stanley and David Loy


http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index....,10388,0,0,1,0

Kind wishes,

A-D

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Thanks Aloka!

Even when the article talks about engaged Buddhism, as a way to bring awareness about our responsibility with ecosystems, to keep, to protect them, to promote their health, to promote and protect biodiversity in them and cultural diversity with in us, so to keep alive life, this OP has remembered me this:

When I first started to get into "Buddhism" a few years ago I was looking for an statue of Buddha... the one of he touching the earth. I knew that tale or the story about Mara asking Buddha who was going to believe him about such supreme state... and then the Buddha touching the earth told "the earth shall be my witness" and then the Earth, then, swallowed Mara.

I love this image because it reminds two central things about the Buddha.... that he realized enlightenment here and now in Earth; in an intimate relationship with Earth and that the Buddha is not looking at the sky for a God, a father, a saviour... that the work, that the path is here, in this place, at this time, in this planet...

[Yartonbler]

A government that takes everything that its' people have worked for is the creation of the most suffering that humanity has ever see. The government of today is a false god. The Buddhist community has been taken advantage of to help in the suffering when it is asked to help bring it on humanity.

Why would Buddhists really want a government that takes everything away from its' people? Because they don't understand that global warming is only a lie made up to enslave humanity. The cause of most human suffering today is the deprivation of our lives caused by our governments that have taken everything away.

I do not understand Buddhism, I am trying to learn. But I do know where the cause of suffering today is.

Binding tyranny. Buddhists would call it binding suffering. They tell you that everything is free to you, to take as much as you like. But there is only one way to pay for what you have taken. & that is to take it from someone who has worked for it.

You can support your environment. But if you support global warming hysteria it builds on human suffering.

Believe me or don't believe me. But answer me this, why is it alright for them to take everything and create more debt than any of us can ever pay? Does that sound like freedom?

Global warming crisis activists and those like them, destroy humanities ability to live free within the environment. They say they are helping, but do you know how? No wonder some of you find peace in a finite world.

After all that they have taken, there is little to live for. ?Just look at the two Koreas. Look at China, Russia. Those governments have taken all away from their citizens. Not both Koreas, but China. Are people suffering in China?

Why would anyone support that kind of human suffering? Are you afraid of living free? I don't understand the Buddhists & the liberals. Are Buddhist among the last to find the truth? Please answer.

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It is a very beautiful story about the Buddha touching the earth. Where we see that suffering is real, & choose to lessen it by cutting its' binds in ours & others lives, then what better thing that the earth to witness.

[XYTommy]

You can support your environment. But if you support global warming hysteria it builds on human suffering.

There's a thread about global warming in the Tea Room


http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries...arming-Effects

[feedcomnet]

All they want you to do is support their liberal agenda. They don't care about Buddhists, or anybody. Read the story again, this is how humanity got near its end today. They engage your heart to destroy you fellow human beings. Please reply. Liberalism is the cause of most suffering in America today. Communist/ Socialist governments are another cause of human suffering. Terrorism is the killing of innocents to gain power.

Suffering is a bind. Suffering is tyranny, restriction from freedom. Liberalism is human suffering.

[maks_holi]

There's a thread about global warming in the Tea Room

This story is more about global warming activism than Buddhism. Read it again. These people are using Buddhists. Thank you though, I will check that thread also.