Think Globaly, but act Localy

--Think Globally, but act Locally--

Is an injunction steeped in wisdom. Let me deconstruct the above injunction:

So, on that note of thinking, what is the first thing that this injunction enjoins?

1. THINK - First it enjoins us to think! What a novel concept in this world of sound-bites and "force fed news".

2. GLOBALLY - Then it reminds us that we are an interdependent whole on this spinning rock, this space faring vessel that we call planet earth. A vessel that we have been trashing to the point of the incipient failure of it's life support system.

3. ACT - Second to last, it exhorts us to ACT. For thinking only--without ever acting--is merely a narcissistic exercise that achieves nothing other than continuing to delude us into believing (and believe me, I have been guilty of this very delusion) just how special; how brilliant, and important, we believe ourselves to be.

4. LOCALLY - Finally, this great injunction instructs us that the Local stage of affairs is where we can create--by example--the inertia to take a movement global and make a real difference in the world.

A few days ago I received my weeky message/gift from my dear friend from KPC, Ani Alana (An Ani is a Buddhist Nun) who is on retreat at our Temple's Central Arizona property "Dakini Valley". It is a fitting quote from Seneca (Roman philosopher, mid 1st century AD)

It is not because things are difficult
that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare
that things are difficult."

So, please join me in acting locally--wherever you might be--for the sake of our world. Lets encourage, and gently push each other (with good humour and friendship) onwards to greater and greater effort leading to results. After all, we are IT. It is up to us and there is no one else that can do what must be done.