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We live in the Age of Apologies. Here is an apology that is much more meaningful than many being made today.
Mankind owes a profound apology
To the Birds, for having polluted the air through which they fly,
To the Ape and the Tiger, for having destroyed the forests in which they live,
To the Deer and the Bison, for ruthlessly hunting them almost to extinction,
To the Rivers and Streams, for poisoning them with chemicals,
To the Earth itself, for greedily pillaging its riches of silver and gold,
To the Ocean, for slaughtering the greatest of her children, the Whale, \u2018for scientific purposes\u2019,
To the Mountain Peaks, for defiling their virgin snows with our trash,
To the Moon, for rudely invading her sacred space,
To the Stars, for obscuring their brightness with the smoke of our cities,
To the Sun, for not gratefully acknowledging our dependence on his bounty,
To the truly great Men and Women of the past, for not honouring their memory as we should and for not walking in their\u00a0footsteps.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I come to you with four gifts.<\/p>\n
The first gift is a lotus-flower.<\/p>\n
Do you understand?<\/p>\n
My second gift is a golden net.<\/p>\n
Can you recognize it?<\/p>\n
My third gift is a shepherds\u2019 round-dance.<\/p>\n
Do your feet know how to dance?<\/p>\n
My fourth gift is a garden planted in a wilderness.<\/p>\n
Could you work there?<\/p>\n
I come to you with four gifts.<\/p>\n
Dare you accept them?<\/p>\n
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Sangharakshita on “Four Gifts”<\/strong><\/p>\n Listen to the whole interview. Or to individual tracks\u00a0below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n The tenth\u00a0in a series of ten intimate interviews between Sangharakshita and Saddhanandi, reflecting on Sangharakshita’s own selections from his extensive body of poetry. In this segment they discuss the poem “Four Gifts”.<\/p>\n
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