--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=70,419,0,0,1,0 <snip> > The study of this sort of history enables us to develop a > profound understanding of who we are and how we got to be > in the position we find ourselves today. It also gives us > a connection with our fellow beings and brings us the > realization that we are not isolated individuals on a > mission for personal salvation, but instead presents us > with the vista of all of us together, as a community, > engaged in the endeavor of building an alternative circle > of societal healing. > > It is through the big picture perspective, and the > adoption of a long range, a thousand year view, what > indigenous people of America call "the seven generations," > that we can fully develop an understanding of our true > nature. Our intrinsic, true nature reveals us as > individuals and as a community of people actively walking > together on the path of a fully awakened state of mind. > > ---------------------------------- > > Ven. Kobutsu Malone, zenji is an American Rinzai Zen > Buddhist Priest of the Gempo-Soen-Eido lineage. He > currently lives in a remote village on the coast of Maine.
Anybody see anything *just* a touch incongruous about the last sentence in the bio, given the two paragraphs that precede it?
