{"id":1088,"date":"2009-02-05T23:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T15:37:36","slug":"you-critical-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/02\/you-critical-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"You : Critical Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The initial critical mass needed
\nfor creating the actual critical mass
\nis just one person – why not you?<\/span><\/p>\n

– Stonepeace<\/em><\/p>\n

Likewise, the one critical for spreading the Buddhadharma was the Buddha,
\nwho shared the Dharma to form the Sangha. Thus was the Triple Gem formed.
\n<\/span>
\n“The biggest challenge facing civilisation and globalisation is a moral one, not a political one. And it is a collective problem as much as it is a personal one. Just as [Al] Gore attempts to spread his message city by city, person by person, to accumulate support to make up the threshold needed for reversing the situation, we too need to make up the critical mass. If we are not of the positive critical mass, we make up the other critically wrong mass that is bound for mass destruction. We the masses can be weapons of mass destruction too. Political terrorism is not the only global problem. We are terrorists too – of the planet’s life itself. A big problem is that many think they are not part of the problem, or that they can’t be part of the solution. Truth is, if you do not become part of the solution, you are probably part of the problem. Since the solution takes every effort, every effort counts.”<\/p>\n

– I Need to Wake Up to ‘An Inconvenient Truth’<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/buddhistchannel.tv\/index.php?id=12,3447,0,0,1,0<\/a><\/p>\n

“Incidentally, vegetarians are individually less connected to the emission of greenhouse gases by about 1.5 tons a year. Meat-consumption creates more greenhouse gases than all motor transportation combined. Homer [Simpson] ‘single-handedly’ causes the tipping point of Springfield’s ecologically dismal situation. It results in the government’s drastic pseudo-solution of encasing Springfield within a dome, so as to contain the disaster. As we know, Homer is not downright evil – he just fumbles along in life with overwhelming greed for food, unmindfulness and delusion!…<\/p>\n

However, for his dumping mistake, Homer becomes the witch to be hunted, as the trapped Springfielders point their accusing fingers at him. But was it wholly Homer’s fault? No – he merely tipped the scale, while the other ungreen Springfielders had added weights to it earlier. In this sense, everyone was responsible. Or rather, irresponsible! Everyone let everyone down – especially those like Lisa, who strove hard to make the green cause heard.”
\n
\n– An Irritating Truth in ‘The Simpsons Movie’ <\/strong><\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/buddhistchannel.tv\/index.php?id=12,4603,0,0,1,0<\/a><\/p>\n

Related Article:<\/strong>
\nThe 100th Monkey
\nhttps:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/change-100-monkeys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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