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The purpose of ecologically and socially sustainable education is to teach the skills and to impa... more The purpose of ecologically and socially sustainable education is to teach the skills and to impart knowledge necessary for the establishment and perpetuation of ecologically and socially sustainable society. The first step is to determine what an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" is. This is achieved by reconciling and unifying of all individual ideas that there ever might exist of what should constitute an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" into a unified model--a model acceptable to all because it is based on all knowledge of Earth and societal processes pertinent to the subject, and because everyone can participate in the modeling process. This unification in a model is necessary in order to avoid costly resolving ("costly" in terms of time, energy, resources, and, not infrequently, lives) of differences among those ideas in real life. This ongoing process of "reconciling and unifying of all individual ideas" into a unified model in itself would be the"ecologically and socially sustainable education" to the participants, because this unification process of all the diverse ideas would show what ideas would be more sustainable than others (or not), and why this should be so; in order to design a world that they would like to live in the participants would learn everything necessary for this while participating in the designing process. They would have an active interest in doing so--they would be designing a life for themselves that they would like to have. This, in itself, would constitute the best possible form of a government.
We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we live in now we don't ... more We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we live in now we don't like. The challenge is to come up with an idea of a world that would optimally suit us all; an ideal that all of us on Earth could focus on and strive for--a harmonious, truly sustainable co-existence of us all on Earth. It has to be an ideal accessible, discussable, and amendable by every- and any-body at all times--the germ of a true global (and, of course local at the same time) governance--a government where the governing would be done by the means of a "vision" in common worked on, held and striven for by all continuously.
Mahayana: Philosophy for Sustainability. Mahayana is a view that acknowledges the interconnec... more Mahayana:
Philosophy for Sustainability.
Mahayana is a view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena across all time and all space; a view that posits that any- and every-one's well-being depends on the well-being of every other being's across all time and all space.
A Bodhisattva is one who strives to realize the ideal of Mahayana, and therefore regards the well-being of all other beings as important as one's own well-being.
To live ecologically and socially sustainably means to acknowledge the need of all beings--all beings without an exception--to live as well as possible.
Thus the need for living ecologically and socially sustainably is implicit in Mahayana.
Therefore--an aspiring Bodhisattva would help all beings, starting with all beings that there are here and now (for here and now is there always), to be mentally and physically optimally well--with no beings favored, with no beings left behind--and therefore an aspiring Bodhisattva would promote the way of living fully ecologically and socially transparently sustainably.
To live "transparently sustainably" is necessary in order that should ever anything start becoming non-sustainable, it would be spotted and corrected soon at the start.
"Transparency" in this case could be (for working purposes) defined thus: the younger a child to understand any supposedly sustainable ecologically and/or social process would be, the more a chance there is that such a process would indeed be sustainable.
There is too much unnecessary suffering in the world today inflicted by humans on themselves and many other beings in the whole world today.
Benefiting all beings in "all three times and ten directions of space" has to start here and now!, or it will never happen any other time, nor any other place.
Here and now is forever--in "all three times and ten directions of space".
IMPORTANT!:
The reason that humanity has not become ecologically and socially sustainable yet, and that there still is no lasting world peace in evidence, is that we all wish, meditate and pray for different things in this regard.
What is needed is to create a unified idea of what living ecologically and socially, and what a lasting world peace should actually be like, so that we all aim for the same thing!
More on how to unify all the diverse ideas of what what ecologically and socially humanity, and what a lasting world peace should actually be like, please visit "Donella Meadows' "Visioning": Global Citizens Designing a Sustainable World Together.", "Designing the Future of the Earth Together," and "Designing a Lasting World Peace Collectively," where I am trying to introduce a concept of designing the future of the Earth collaboratively.
MEDITATION:
Find, or imagine that there is, a mental space in which all the ideas of what anyone might think that their future should look like would be reconciled with the ideas of all others, so that conflicts in real life would be prevented from occurring.
PRAYER:
May all differences, all controversies, all conflicts, and all complaints that there are in the world among all beings be resolved harmlessly in meditations, by prayers, in models, and/or by using what-so-ever wholesome, expedient, and effective means!
May humans become ecologically and socially fully and truly transparently sustainable (and may they stay so forever!) for their own good, and for the benefit of all those beings who suffer unnecessarily only because of humans!
May we have good sustainable homes for ourselves, all our children, all our families, our friends, and our ohana!
Please dedicate your practice to the optimal benefit of all beings of all three times and ten directions of space, starting with the optimal benefit of all beings here and now on Earth.
This article is based on numerous teachings that I had the fortune to receive from Tibetan Buddhist teachers for over the last more than thirty years, on what I had studied about Mahayana on my own, on my personal realizations, on my reading about and practicing ideas (for over the last twenty years) of Robert Fritz' as he wrote about them in The Path of Least Resistance, and on reading about Donella Meadows' concept of "visioning"/"envisioning".
All the views and opinions in this article are mine
Teaching Documents by Jan Hearthstone
The purpose of ecologically and socially sustainable education is to teach the skills and to impa... more The purpose of ecologically and socially sustainable education is to teach the skills and to impart knowledge necessary for the establishment and perpetuation of ecologically and socially sustainable society. The first step is to determine what an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" is. This is achieved by reconciling and unifying of all individual ideas that there ever might exist of what should constitute an "ecologically and socially sustainable society" into a unified model--a model acceptable to all because it is based on all knowledge of Earth and societal processes pertinent to the subject, and because everyone can participate in the modeling process. This unification in a model is necessary in order to avoid costly resolving ("costly" in terms of time, energy, resources, and, not infrequently, lives) of differences among those ideas in real life. This ongoing process of "reconciling and unifying of all individual ideas" into a unified model in itself would be the"ecologically and socially sustainable education" to the participants, because this unification process of all the diverse ideas would show what ideas would be more sustainable than others (or not), and why this should be so; in order to design a world that they would like to live in the participants would learn everything necessary for this while participating in the designing process. They would have an active interest in doing so--they would be designing a life for themselves that they would like to have. This, in itself, would constitute the best possible form of a government.
We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we live in now we don't ... more We have to know what kind of a world we want to live in, if the one that we live in now we don't like. The challenge is to come up with an idea of a world that would optimally suit us all; an ideal that all of us on Earth could focus on and strive for--a harmonious, truly sustainable co-existence of us all on Earth. It has to be an ideal accessible, discussable, and amendable by every- and any-body at all times--the germ of a true global (and, of course local at the same time) governance--a government where the governing would be done by the means of a "vision" in common worked on, held and striven for by all continuously.
Mahayana: Philosophy for Sustainability. Mahayana is a view that acknowledges the interconnec... more Mahayana:
Philosophy for Sustainability.
Mahayana is a view that acknowledges the interconnectedness of all phenomena across all time and all space; a view that posits that any- and every-one's well-being depends on the well-being of every other being's across all time and all space.
A Bodhisattva is one who strives to realize the ideal of Mahayana, and therefore regards the well-being of all other beings as important as one's own well-being.
To live ecologically and socially sustainably means to acknowledge the need of all beings--all beings without an exception--to live as well as possible.
Thus the need for living ecologically and socially sustainably is implicit in Mahayana.
Therefore--an aspiring Bodhisattva would help all beings, starting with all beings that there are here and now (for here and now is there always), to be mentally and physically optimally well--with no beings favored, with no beings left behind--and therefore an aspiring Bodhisattva would promote the way of living fully ecologically and socially transparently sustainably.
To live "transparently sustainably" is necessary in order that should ever anything start becoming non-sustainable, it would be spotted and corrected soon at the start.
"Transparency" in this case could be (for working purposes) defined thus: the younger a child to understand any supposedly sustainable ecologically and/or social process would be, the more a chance there is that such a process would indeed be sustainable.
There is too much unnecessary suffering in the world today inflicted by humans on themselves and many other beings in the whole world today.
Benefiting all beings in "all three times and ten directions of space" has to start here and now!, or it will never happen any other time, nor any other place.
Here and now is forever--in "all three times and ten directions of space".
IMPORTANT!:
The reason that humanity has not become ecologically and socially sustainable yet, and that there still is no lasting world peace in evidence, is that we all wish, meditate and pray for different things in this regard.
What is needed is to create a unified idea of what living ecologically and socially, and what a lasting world peace should actually be like, so that we all aim for the same thing!
More on how to unify all the diverse ideas of what what ecologically and socially humanity, and what a lasting world peace should actually be like, please visit "Donella Meadows' "Visioning": Global Citizens Designing a Sustainable World Together.", "Designing the Future of the Earth Together," and "Designing a Lasting World Peace Collectively," where I am trying to introduce a concept of designing the future of the Earth collaboratively.
MEDITATION:
Find, or imagine that there is, a mental space in which all the ideas of what anyone might think that their future should look like would be reconciled with the ideas of all others, so that conflicts in real life would be prevented from occurring.
PRAYER:
May all differences, all controversies, all conflicts, and all complaints that there are in the world among all beings be resolved harmlessly in meditations, by prayers, in models, and/or by using what-so-ever wholesome, expedient, and effective means!
May humans become ecologically and socially fully and truly transparently sustainable (and may they stay so forever!) for their own good, and for the benefit of all those beings who suffer unnecessarily only because of humans!
May we have good sustainable homes for ourselves, all our children, all our families, our friends, and our ohana!
Please dedicate your practice to the optimal benefit of all beings of all three times and ten directions of space, starting with the optimal benefit of all beings here and now on Earth.
This article is based on numerous teachings that I had the fortune to receive from Tibetan Buddhist teachers for over the last more than thirty years, on what I had studied about Mahayana on my own, on my personal realizations, on my reading about and practicing ideas (for over the last twenty years) of Robert Fritz' as he wrote about them in The Path of Least Resistance, and on reading about Donella Meadows' concept of "visioning"/"envisioning".
All the views and opinions in this article are mine