Order As Practice
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How to Move Away From Worldly Objects and Values
Dharmic Buddhist aims and values are what we try to create in our own life and practice. We're trying to counter-greed with a passion for the Dharma, with contentment, with a simple life. A few days ago I was reading a very beautiful poem by a modern poet that ended on a rather earthy note. The author of the poem concluded by talking about what we would call individuals and she said, we are earthworms. To be an earthworm is a very high ideal. We are earthworms because we are just burrowing underneath the foundations of the existing order. But if enough little earthworms just burrow away underneath the foundation of even the loftiest and
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