POLITICAL PARODY: The Amazing Atheist / “Redneck History Of America”
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“If there are good reasons for a tradition these reasons can stand on their own merits with no need to appeal to longevity. Using the past to veto the future is often the hallmark of those who just don’t have a better argument.”
Pema Chödrön discussing a verse from eighth-century Indian Buddhist scholar Shantideva’s “The Way of the Bodhisattva,” where he uses a wonderful leather shoe analogy to show how one might go about first recognizing, then dealing with both inner and external induced suffering.