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Article: Spirituality and security: Joanna Macy, Sulak Sivaraksa, and Alan Watts on interconnection, compassion, and living without guarantees.
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- Whole Earth
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Joanna Macy:
All over the world I see people risking their comforts, risking their jobs and sometimes their lives, to act on behalf of other beings and to protect the living body of Earth. They put themselves in service to the broken and the dispossessed. And among these activists the hunger for a spiritual understanding of what they're doing, and for spiritual practices to strengthen them, seems to be growing by the week, the day, the hour. Their confrontation with suffering feeds their search for awakening--for freedom from the obscurations and obsessions of the separated self, for liberation from greed, hatred, and delusion. This kind of liberation takes one ...