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Sustainability, Religious and Spiritual Issues
Certain sustainability issues rest on deep ethical and spiritual commitments, in senses of faith, salvation, karma, truth, and beauty. Spiritual commitment contemplates the beauty of landscapes, the sacredness of specific places (archeological, historical, and architectural), and the soulfulness of nonhuman species as worthy of care and protection. Spiritual and metaphysical understanding of what animates life (the soul) may define an individual's or group's attitude toward family planning, birth control, abortion, and other aspects of population management. Spiritual and religious attitudes toward the "good life" or "happy life" will influence their giving to sustainability NGOs, volunteer time, attitudes toward governance and political officials, call to service, "necessary" material gain and accumulation, desire for upward mobility, etc. Spiritual realities-the soul, the sacred, the religious, and the divine-are considered realities that are outside those of reason and science.
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Change In Actiongenerates funds for Buddhist-inspired ecological projects in Asia and the developing world. |
Buddhist Peace Fellowship is an international network dedicated to bringing a Buddhist perspective to contemporary peace, environmental, and social justice movements. BPF links Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion with progressive social change. | Argentinian Foundation of Etoecology works to elevate the intellectual and spiritual level of the Argentinian population, by means of formal and non-formal environmental education. |
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Flag comment for removal shantikar 5 months ago
Participants are invited to www.kagyuoffice.org..for the ongoing activities of H.H. the 17th Karmapa....including his first vist to America from May 15 to June 2..08
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