This administration has done so many awful things in its first 100 days that it is hard to keep up. However, THIS IS THE HILL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SHOULD BE WILLING TO DIE ON.
If Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia can be illegally disappeared, anyone can.
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As the US is engaged in a trade war with China, why is no one talking about this?
“The finding of microplastics and nanoplastics in [atherosclerotic] [plaque tissue is itself a breakthrough discovery that raises a series of urgent questions.”—Philip Landrigan
"It’s hard to think of a worse pair of human beings to shape the character of a movement than Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Yet here we are, with Trump controlling the right’s access to power, and Musk increasingly controlling the right’s access to the public."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/opinion/musk-x-maga-trump.html
In this seemingly matter-of-course passage (from Dogen’s Instruction to the Head Cook) there is an extremely vital teaching to be found. In this world of impermanence, we have no idea of what may occur during the night; maybe there will be an earthquake or a disastrous fire, war may break out, or perhaps a revolution might erupt, or we ourselves could very well meet death. Nevertheless, we are told to prepare the gruel for the following morning and make a plan for lunch. Moreover, we are to do this as tonight’s work. In preparing the meal for the following day as tonight’s work, there is no goal for tomorrow being established. Yet, our direction for right now is clear: prepare tomorrow’s gruel. Here is where our awakening to the impermanence of all things becomes manifest, while at the same time our activity manifests our recognition of the law of cause and effect. In this routine matter of preparing tomorrow’s gruel as this evening’s work lies the key to the attitude necessary for coping with this absolute contradiction of impermanence and cause and effect.
Much too often we go about our lives holding on to some future goal without thinking about our present direction, or about the direction of our lives as a whole. When we stop projection goals and hopes in the future, and refuse to be led around by them, yet work to clarify our lives, that is, the direction of the present, then we will discover an alive and dynamic practice. At the juncture of this contradiction we will begin to understand the function of the tenzo.
KOSHO UCHIYAMA ROSHI – FROM THE ZEN KITCHEN TO ENLIGHTENMENT REFINING YOUR LIFE
https://3pillarsblog.wordpress.com/2023/12/29/direction-goal/
Jesse Skinner
Three Pillars of Health and Longevity