Gratitude to the many dharma teachers who have protected and guided us.
Blessings to our teachers whose insights, words, writings, and actions have, like diamonds, cut through the illusions of our society.
Ease to our teachers who have struggled on our behalf to “break it down” and lay bare the obsolete foundations of our world.
Respect to our teachers for creating new tools, new languages, and new lenses to help us craft this generation’s mission of building a new foundation for society.
May we lay a foundation for the next generation
… with a Charter guided by the Five Mindfulness Trainings of Life, Justice, Relations, Language, and Sustenance,
… with a Pledge to the Three Jewels of Student, Learning, and Community,
… & with Support in the form of Dana, Participation, and Creative Exchange,
for the benefit of the next generation and all beings.
our ancestors “broke it down”
our task as a generation is to “build it up, anew”
to create a gateway
for an entirely different way of being
and the young ones to follow
to renew & transform, ascend and actualize
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the zapatistas say:
“another world, another path…
down here, on the left”
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fanon wrote:
“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it…”
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thich nhat hanh says:
“you have seen the path…do not fear anymore.”
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and so it is
and so it is
and so it is
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