Selflessness Makes Sense

[kbo234]

A rather uplifting email from Brian Bogart of www.strikeforpeace.org
He is a graduate student of Peace Studies at the University of Oregon and now a full-time anti-war activist.

Kevin Boyle

A friend points out that two heart cells placed next to each other in a laboratory dish -- even if separated by a barrier -- will begin to synchronically fibrillate (pulsate in unison) and survive. One cell placed alone will die.


Diversity is the struggle to minimize hierarchies and banish prejudices in a selfless effort to maximize life in harmony for the common good, making closed minds the true minority. What is called self-awareness is really the awareness of All and our role as part of All. Beneath the trappings of training for your particular society and in your particular body lies common ground where we fundamentally agree, where we are one, where the struggle for awakening and productive communing is waged. This awakening or empowerment -- this elimination of suffering -- cannot progress without its conscious pursuit, without deliberate self-diminishment and deliberate elevation of others in pursuing spiritual equality and material justice.