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Ecosocialist Libertarian
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posted 13 July 2005 03:27 PM      Profile for Ecosocialist Libertarian     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Essentially Common Values
Humanity; our essential awakened dignity, humility and compassion.
Diversity; natural evolution and living manifestation of artistic, scientific and cultural wisdom.
Community; the collective independence, interdependence and social-ecological awareness of individuals living in harmony with each other and the natural world.

Integral Truths
Life and suffering are not separable.
Suffering originates from individual and collective ignorance and attachment to what changes and is not permanent.
There are ways that can alleviate, overcome, and prevent suffering.
These ways consist of comprehension, imagination, communication, action, devotion, gumption, intuition and concentration

Vital Aims
To liberate ourselves and others from delusion, oppression and needless suffering.
To abandon and resist greed, hatred, ignorance, apathy and arrogance.
To generate clear awareness and truthful insight into the nature of life and death.
To fully uncover our humanity and actualize our whole potential.

Critical Common Imperatives
To prevent systemic violence, coercion and needless killing.
To prevent corruption and over-consumption.
To prevent abuse of human dignity and social exploitation.
To prevent hypocrisy and the spread of lies.
To prevent pollution and senseless destruction of natural habitat.

Innate Means of Liberation
Amity and generosity
Integrity and honesty
Serenity and stability
Vitality and tenacity
Clarity and equanimity
Simplicity and radical wisdom

The Essence of Radical Wisdom
The heart of human compassion, stirred by profound and timeless wisdom, sees into all aspects of human nature and finds them essentially dream-like. With this insight, anguish and despair are overcome.

Reality beyond appearances is vast emptiness, emptiness is transient reality, reality is not different from unfathomable emptiness, and emptiness is not different from manifest reality. Form, sensation, perception, mental reaction, and consciousness are intrinsically like this.

All things are illusory like a dream; not created or destroyed, defiled or pure, gained or lost. Therefore, in emptiness there is no self that is separate from form, sensation, perception, mental reaction or consciousness; no self-identification with eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind; no self that is independent of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, or thought; no self who is seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching or thinking; no ignorance, cause and effect or end of ignorance, cause and effect; no aging and death or ending of aging and death; no suffering, no origination of suffering, no end of suffering or ways that lead from suffering; nothing to grasp or cling to, no individual attainment,.

With no individual attainment, human beings, guided and empowered by radical wisdom, lose all of their doubts and obsessions. Having no obstacles for their minds, they overcome fear and hesitation, liberating themselves entirely from illusion, and experience genuine awakening and wonderful clarity. All intimately awakened human beings in the past, present, and future, relying intuitively on radical wisdom, realize radical means and actualize complete and universal liberation.

[ 13 July 2005: Message edited by: Ecosocialist Libertarian ]


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