Last few months I was in an exchange with my Thai Aunt in Bangkok about the political turmoil in Thailand. She is torn between her staunch Buddhist convictions and her indignation at gross injustice done to Thai people by the country's politicians.
It is really very difficult to strike the balance between focusing on purifying your spirit and getting involved with the outside world. This reality is an illusion, Maya, but we do live in it. But as it is said "blessed are the truth-seekers": those who seek truth in the world will find it inside.
I find it truly amazing to learn, slowly but surely, from my own experience of meditation how everything in your spiritual world is reflected, connected and related with the reality outside. The path of liberation is not escapism, it is about learning the truth about reality, peeling off the made up, assumed and imposed to get to the core, which actually seems to lie on the surface, hidden from us by our ignorance.
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