Notices by Bodling (bodling@deacon.social)

@evan Equally important

(which, yes, makes no sense; but it'd be anyway of smoking out the middle-of-the-road era who can't take a stand)

@evan In a city like Hanoi, the surprise would be the shops and factories with American dollars behind them.

In Lagos there'd now be way, way more people and way more pollution. Same in Mexico City.

In Durban or Johannesburg you'd notice that apartheid had vanished, and that - whoa! - Blacks are in charge.

In Gaza, you'd notice the recently destroyed buildings.

In Kharkiv you'd also notice recently bombed buildings.

So, certainly, it does depend on where the time traveler would look.

"Now the great obstacle to mutual understanding between Christianity and Buddhism lies in the Western tendency to focus not on the Buddhist experience, which is essential, but on the explanation, which is accidental and which indeed Zen often regards as completely trivial and even misleading.

“Buddhist meditation, but above all that of Zen, seeks not to explain but to pay attention, to become aware, to be mindful, in other words to develop a certain kind of consciousness that is above and beyond deception by verbal formulas–or by emotional excitement.”

Merton, Thomas. “A Christian Looks at Zen.” (1967) in Selected Essays. Edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2013, p. 346.

#Merton #Christianity #Buddhism #Meditation

@evan Do sandals count as shoes?

@wikipedia White folk being copycats.

https://www.blackhistory.com/2021/02/henry-box-brown-slave-packed-box-mailed-himself-to-freedom.html?m=1