In a message dated 12/12/98 10:30:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< We're all just humans struggling with the
material and we ought to cut each other a huge amount of slack. Kindness
matters a lot more than anything else. >>
Dear ecofem,
I agree completely with this view, and share with the author a youthful
allergy to Christianity, and to organized religion. When i said we should
honor the teacher, however strange the lesson, I meant it. Some teachers
teach us by supporting our views, some by disagreeing with them, others by
holding a mirror to us (such as the mirror of intolerance). (Yes, indeed, we
cringe before it). I believe that our karmic agreement to learn from each
other (which is, perhaps our ticket to this realm), implies, by necessity that
everything we do teaches something to someone, and from everyone we learn
something. the Buddhists say, be grateful to everyone, because of the lesson
you are given, acknowledging this truth.
The better to incorporate this into an ecofeminist debate, think of the
rainforest. Think of how ecologies interact. How, if untouched by humans, it
all develops into an ecosystem that works. We are a (small)human ecosystem.
Love, Jane
