Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. — Ansel Adams

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Good News of the Day:
There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia. If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4667

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Be The Change:
Reflect on your own life, and how you can be a good ancestor.

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