Fw: [TrueVision] Fw: Thought for the Day 9/24/05

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Hi Beloveds,

Appropriate and not unlike another step in the Bodhisattva Vow.

What say ye?

ar

- earl engelhardt

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Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:47 PM

[TrueVision] Fw: Thought for the Day 9/24/05

I know that today's thought will ruffle some feathers, but I believe

this needs to be said and said now:We forget about the deep

connection between spirituality and the real world. Somehow we have

become convinced that spirituality and politics, for instance, are to

be kept at a good healthy distance from each other when spiritual

principles, above all, should be guiding our practical lives.We have

isolated spirituality to a place of irrelevance.There is a big

difference between being guided by spiritual values and being

dictated to by a religion. Morality is defined by my dictionary as

being concerned with right conduct. Right conduct would be the

actions that are beneficial to others, that do not hurt people.When

we are hurting people we are being immoral.Look around. Do you see

any actions that are being taken that will harm people? If you do it

is immoral.Morality has been degraded to a connotation of supervising

sexual conduct when the real meaning of it is care for people,

kindness, love, good works.Look at the price gouging that is about to

occur with gasoline prices. That is an immoral act about to occur.

Should we not all take spiritual action, do the right thing?A rise

from the current almost three dollars to five or even six dollars

will harm many people. It is an immoral act. The spiritual action is

to speak to your senators and congressmen and ask them to rise above

whatever political principles they are following and act in a

spiritual manner.Freezing gasoline prices would be a spiritual

act.Think about it. It's simple. It's the right thing to do.We need

to start doing right things. And we need to take spiritual action

right now, today. Pick up the phone. Tell your representative to

assume a spiritual viewpoint and freeze oil and gasoline prices. Act

spiritually in the world. This is not political. This is humane,

spirit in action in the real world.We need to care for each other in

a time of crisis. Let's start really watching out for each

other.Emanations 2005 by John MacEnulty9/24/05, St. Louis,

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