How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Dept.

Will Enlightenment Save The World? | Hardcore Zen

We won’t end tragedies like the Malaysian Airlines disaster just by meditating until we all have our own glimpses of God. ... Accepting things as they are does not mean you need to be complacent about them. The ability to accept things as they [are] allows you to become better able to make changes when change needs to happen.

The above is in the context of a larger discussion about how what I guess could be called "spiritual materialism" (I wish...