Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Sunday, 2025.07.06 
Periodically, some religious group proclaims that if everyone would just do
something like chant, some fundamental social problem would be solved. Claims
have been made that spiritual devotion could affect wars, famine, disease, the
economy, and overpopulation.

Only personal endeavors can be spiritual. What you do with your daily devotions
is purely for your own sake. Once you put ideals on a grand scale, they are
compromised by the contradictions of life.

There is no utopia. There never will be. There is only the valiant attempt of
each person to live spiritually in a world where spirituality is almost
impossible.

		Deng Ming-Dao, "365 Tao - Daily Meditations", #241

2007.04.09

Blog Haiku #19

Friend and foe.
Fiend and fair.
One becomes the other.

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