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Innocence seems to be something we reach for, from a long time back in a past age, a natural loving, a spiritual freedom and a social, tribal quality, not existing alone. But also a relative quality, not a purity, just a taste of the beauty of our cosmos. A few nights back I watched the 1950’s movie, The Student Prince, with the famous tenor, Mario Lanza. This so seemed to show a western longing for such an innocence, an innocence so lost in the fascist wars of the previous decades.
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I have just watched a bbc programme- blood, sweat and takeaways. A group of fit, young English people are left to live as labourers in Thailand- paid Thai rates of pay and left to fend for themselves. This is very powerful stuff, to experience living in hardship through eyes that know the privilege that we take for granted. The work in rice fields and factories was more than they could deal with, the money barely paid for the most basic accommodation, lucky to have enough left over for a bowl of… Continue

Recently I have read two books on climate change. James Lovelock- the final warning and climate code red by David Spratt and Philip Sutton. The reports are shocking. My belief is that as engaged Buddhists, our starting point is to be aware that these reports may be the actual situation.
James Lovelock, whose science has transformed our understanding of global ecology and whose theories resulted in the name Gaia being widely adopted for our planet believes we have already passed tipping points. H… Continue