[FutureBuddha] 1st in a Series:
Dear Treeleafers,
The following words are meant to be a bit shocking, but do listen to what I am saying. I want people to hear the real message:
Buddhism has rescued me and, I hope the same for you too, and for millions of people through the centuries. It did not fail in my life at all, and for so many millions and millions of other people. But what of the BILLIONS we fail to reach, lost in this world of war and violence, greed, environmental collapse, all the suffering children? It is my belief that we need to look to the future ... not only the past ... even as we live today. It is important for people to begin talking about these issues, how Buddhism will change in the coming world ... and how Buddhism can help change the coming world for the good.
Gassho, Jundo
stlah
Dear Treeleafers,
The following words are meant to be a bit shocking, but do listen to what I am saying. I want people to hear the real message:
Buddhism has rescued me and, I hope the same for you too, and for millions of people through the centuries. It did not fail in my life at all, and for so many millions and millions of other people. But what of the BILLIONS we fail to reach, lost in this world of war and violence, greed, environmental collapse, all the suffering children? It is my belief that we need to look to the future ... not only the past ... even as we live today. It is important for people to begin talking about these issues, how Buddhism will change in the coming world ... and how Buddhism can help change the coming world for the good.
My name is Jundo Cohen. I am a Buddhist teacher, a Zen teacher, who says that it is time for us to admit that Buddhism has FAILED MISERABLY in its key mission. Over two thousand years of sutras and twirling beads, meditation and mantras have yet to realize all that we vowed to do.
Look around: How's that working out for the world?
But now, perhaps, there is a chance. Soto Zen Buddhism must not be frozen, limiting itself only to means and methods available 50 or 500 years ago. Our way is not a museum of long ago.
Let us learn from our traditions and the past, act in the present, as we open to possibilities for tomorrow. This is the future of Soto Zen Buddhism.
Please allow me a few minutes to explain ...
Look around: How's that working out for the world?
But now, perhaps, there is a chance. Soto Zen Buddhism must not be frozen, limiting itself only to means and methods available 50 or 500 years ago. Our way is not a museum of long ago.
Let us learn from our traditions and the past, act in the present, as we open to possibilities for tomorrow. This is the future of Soto Zen Buddhism.
Please allow me a few minutes to explain ...
Gassho, Jundo
stlah
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