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[David Riley <reuselumber@yahoo.com>]

I like what you've said Felicity and good on ya for speaking your speak.

I understand metta as putting out into the world loving kindness and 
compassion for those who are in need of it, or the world at large...this is 
done at the close of one's meditation. I recall something such from Vipassana.

And that's all I have to say. 


Regardens, 

-David




From: "Felicity Wright" 
Subject: [permaculture] The dominant paradigm, evangelism and knowing
 when to shut up and listen


You can tell/urge/beg a 'whitefella' (white person) to "shut up and listen" 
and they still just can't/don't/won't bloody hear.

I am a non-Indigenous Australian woman. I have spent the last 20+ years 
living, working and socialising with Indigenous Australians in remote 
communities and towns.

What  I have learnt is a lot about my own culture and cultural conditioning. 
The freakiest thing about the dominant paradigm that we live in, in this 
country (and is probably pretty similar throughout English speaking world) 
is the overwhelming urge to proselytise, evangelise, lecture and hold claim 
to an exclusive knowledge of the 'truth' or 'knowledge'. It is what has 
driven colonisation and wars. It can be presented as a religion, a political 
'ism', and even dear old permaculture has it's share of zealots. We have the 
truth and everyone else is just too dumb or ill-informed to 'get it'......




 
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