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Sadhu sisters. Very pleased to hear you have taken this step and I will be interested in anything you learn along the way.
love,
Saccanama
Thank you! Very encouraging to see clarity and leadership on this going on in Triratna.
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Makes me so happy …Was so disappointing and crushing when the International Council didnt agree to our proposal that we become sustainable movement like the Quakers , perhaps this will create the change that we need in Triratna xxxxxxxxxx Love Sahajatara
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Thank you Maitrisiddhi for sharing this and for the piece you wrote in May which I have only just read. I found it so helpful to read about how you you are responding to the climate crisis through the Dharma.
I will be in London tomorrow and then during the 2nd week of action predominantly to meditate with others. I will contact Joe Mishan .
With metta, Joy
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That was so wonderful, thanks for pushing/ pulling us into conversation, Sadayasihi. This opportunity to reflect was actually quite a strong experience, which I only fully realised afterwards, particularly when hearing the quality of my utterances (which were as spontaneous as us, and not as refined as I might have liked). Well done, us :-) With metta <3 <3 <3
PS Sadayasihi and Gina, I see you are not members of the Triratna Climate Emergency Action FB group. If you’d like to join, it’s at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1317259311624887/.
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“We have a collective inner sleep”. Really? I don’t recall being asked about this. You may know some to whom this applies, but I don’t see how that constitutes a “we”.
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Thanks for this. And again, thanks for your sacrifice in putting yourself on the line in pursuit of climate justice. At this point non-violence civil disobedience seems to be the only sensible response: it has worked many times before.
Thank you Jayarava. Yes, I think if there was something like a meaningful response going on, there wouldn’t be the need for NVDA etc. It would just be a matter of supporting the response.
Thank you. I appreciate you putting yourself on the line in this way. The notion that not inconveniencing people is a higher ideal than campaigning to prevent serious damage to our planet’s ecosystem seems absurd to me.
In terms of the Buddha and social action, he said it was not an offense for a monk or nun to release animals from hunters’ traps. Legally those animals could be considered to belong to the hunters, and the monks or nuns releasing them could therefore be regarded as taking the not-given, but as long as they were acting out of compassion the Buddha was OK with it. I think this is a good example of the Buddha advocating disruptive, yet compassionate, action.
Thank you Bodhipaksa. I’m sure the Buddha was interested in the systemic/cultural/conventional causes of suffering. I don’t know about this example you quote. Could you point me to the source?
I don’t have the relevant books at hand, but a quick internet search pointed to Vin iii 62 as being the source. I remember being struck by this passage when I was researching my book on vegetarianism.