Comments on: Lawrence Wollersheim on Open Sourcing Spirituality (3): Values and Principles https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/lawrence-wollersheim-on-open-sourcing-spirituality-3-values-and-principles/2008/03/16 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Daniel Gustav Anderson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/lawrence-wollersheim-on-open-sourcing-spirituality-3-values-and-principles/2008/03/16/comment-page-1#comment-203668 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:17:51 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/lawrence-wollersheim-on-open-sourcing-spirituality-3-values-and-principles/2008/03/16#comment-203668 On Miracles:

I think that depends on the kind of miracle or the scale of miracle you mean. Example: Chagdud Tulku’s name literally translates to “iron knot nirmanayaka.” The “iron knot” may or may not be apocryphal. It refers to the ability to tie knots in a hunk of iron. (I was not there to see it.) Literally. As if to say, “what don’t you understand about emptiness now?”

What is a miracle like that for? I submit it is to bring about a smaller-scale but much more important miracle. That miracle is recognition. One sees that this world is not what McDonald’s and Wal-Mart say it is. It is an intervention into the mechanical world of meat-stuff of Something Else. That intervention can be developed into Something Bigger.

Si, se puede.

Body awareness or mindfulness is a miracle. The 1977 Portland TrailBlazers? A collective miracle. (That may seem like a silly example, and I will stand fire for that, but I submit that athletics can be as significant aesthetically as, say, ballet or any other performance art.) How about the 1970 election in Chile? There are other examples.

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