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January 2004![main-recycled[1].gif (6134 bytes)](../../main-recycled1.gif)
In this issue...
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Buddhist Economics Part II |
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Money |
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Mother Earth News |
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Margaret Wheatley |
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Instructions for Life |
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and more! |
Thanks!
Susan Witt
Lloyd Thomas
E.F. Schumacher
Phil Shepard
Elise Harvey
Kassandra Ray Smith
Margaret Wheatley
and The Dalai Lama
Buddhist Economics Part II
from Susan Witt
In his now classic essay "Buddhist Economics," Fritz Schumacher imagines an economic system informed by the teachings of the Buddha. Key to such a system is simplicity and non-violence.
read the rest of the letter
More Quotes from "Buddhist Economics" by Ernest Friedrich Schumacher"From a Buddhist point of view . . . non-renewable goods must be used only if they are indispensable, and then only with the greatest care and the most meticulous concern for conservation. To use them heedlessly or extravagantly is an act of violence, and while complete non-violence may not be attainable on this earth, there is nonetheless an ineluctable duty on man to aim at the ideal of non-violence in all he does."
more quotes
Money
by Lloyd ThomasExcerpt:
"Perhaps we need to realize that money is not a question of whether or
not we make it or have it. Rather it is a question of HOW we make it,
and HOW we use it. If we see money as symbolizing energy, we realize
we can use it wisely or foolishly; generously or selfishly; freely, or
with greedy attachment."
"the original guide to living wisely"
Check out this index of articles...
http://www.motherearthnews.com/archindex/
- The Dalai Lama, Adapted version of an e-mail from Phil Shepard
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http://www.peaceforiraq.org/resources/costofwar.htm"Today the United States has 7650 active nuclear warheads. Of these 500 are Minuteman III Missiles, each 10-20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945."
Stress
Test
Kassandra Ray Smith/
The photo below has two almost identical dolphins in it.
It was used in a case study on stress levels with patients at St. Mary's Hospital. Look at both dolphins jumping out of the water. The dolphins are identical. A closely monitored, scientific study revealed that in spite of the fact that the dolphins are identical, a person under stress will find differences in the two dolphins. If there are many differences found between the dolphins, it means that the person is experiencing significant amount of stress.
Look closely at the photograph.
If you find more than one or two differences you may want to take a vacation.
- David Bohm http://www.muc.de/~heuvel/dialogue/...it is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated."
Join the next "Sustainable Community Dialogue" For dates, click here.
Well... I didn't make any resolutions yet. But I woke up this morning
with an empty feeling in my soul, and a few cool thoughts about life.
I often wake up with interesting and promising ideas in the making. The
brightness of day quickly clouds my inner visions, unless I write'm down.
This morning I pledged to jot a few of these ideas down as soon as possible,
so as not to lose them. This brief 1-pager is partially inspired by a
quote I read recently in Conversations with God: "I go within, or I
go without."
click here for
more "health".
Please send along your comments, words of wisdom, thoughts, questions, and suggestions.
Sincerely,
LeRoy
