Complicity

What is the origin of the possessions which we have accumulated? What is the reason for the existence of so many dispossessed people, and so many people who are abandoned, or victimized, or alone?

We should not claim innocence until and unless we address our complicity and put an end to it. What can we offer, and how could we help? It could mean that we a great deal of what we have, if we sought to redeem the injustice we perpetuate. Maybe we would offer our homes, or our bank accounts, or our life energy.

We have the right to know how we are complicit in hidden relations, and so we could issue a challenge to providers of services that they provide the information we need to make judgments about justice. This might include: labeling or providing information about the ramifications of products and services, such as: the condition of the workers who produced them, the environmental and social conditions of the production, the health effects, and more.

Spiritual and moral direct action

A fundamental human right is seldom recognized, and never included in human rights declarations: the right to whatever is essential for self-knowledge and spiritual vitality.

We have the right to protect and nurture the moral commons. The Moral Commons is a project to protect authenticity, understanding, and care through direct spiritual action: fighting aggression, superficiality, and degradation.

The culture that we inhabit is a regime of the crude. We can protect ourselves from the assault of culture, which produces physical, psychic, moral, and spiritual numbness. We need not tolerate this assault on what is most important.

Meeting:
Understanding degradation, superficiality, and manipulation.
Meditation: What is harmful?
Planning for action: Spiritual Direct Action, Beautiful Books week, and Complicity Day.