The Tricycle Book Club is discussing Lin Jensen’s Deep Down Things: The Earth in Celebration and Dismay! Look for daily excerpts from the book on the Tricycle Blog to inspire the conversation, which is happening here.
From Deep Down Things:
“ If my intention is to win at the expense of another, there’s a good likelihood that the competition will end up with a winner and a loser. To change that familiar outcome I must intend differently. Right intention does this by renouncing craving, and the attendant ill will and harm that attaches to such craving, and substituting in their stead generosity, good will, and harmlessness. If I look directly at what goes most astray and suffers most in human social and environmental behaviors, could I find a practice more suited to our present need than this very practice of right intention? To the extent that I can curb my desire for self gain and cultivate in its stead a little modesty, and to the extent that I can redirect whatever argument I might be having with circumstance toward a more understanding, patient, and affectionate regard, to that extent will I spare the world unnecessary harm.”
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