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by Joel Hirschhorn
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Good article Joel. A different tack if I may. When a meditating Buddhist is resolving a problem, he or she doesn’t attempt to resolve it with the brain. They instead focus on the anxiousness and stress involved, and don’t necessarily worry about solving the problem per se. This helps prevent the added baggage of judging, which is an unnecessary psychological addition to actually solving the problem. The meditator watches his or her breath, and trusts that wisdom regarding the situation will arise, and it usually does. If a Buddhist has to make a choice, what to eat tonight, they don’t see that as a judgment call but rather an inclination based on their underlying life continuum consciousness which fruits karma.
Best .........eThere are many rather mundane decisions that, indeed, require little thinking or judgment. But important things require critical thinking and making judgments. Bob Herbert's column in the NY Times today is excellent. He concluded: The nation’s political leaders and their corporate puppet masters have fouled this nation up to a fare-thee-well. We will not be pulled from the morass without a big effort from an active citizenry, and that means a citizenry fired with a sense of mission and the belief that their actions, in concert with others, can make a profound difference.What he sees necessary of real citizens requires people making serious judgments about what is wrong and evil and what needs to be done to fix things. Responsible citizenship inevitably requires a judgmental frame of mind.
I agree with you Joel. It seems that many people never tune into the news or what's going on in the country or the world. This unawareness causes crisis after crisis where nothing is done until things spin out of control and a lot of people suffer. I don't know what the answer is to this attention deficit, especially with the younger people who are too busy to tune in. I have the same problem with meditation. I can advise people to meditate and get a handle on their karma and their actions before it's too late, but usually only after a very disquiting event in their lives are they ready to finally sit still and learn about their minds. Boy, if everyone was a smart as us, ay? (Yuk, yuk)
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