Your Prius will not save you now, Mark Morford

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Here is the basic rule of any reasonably attuned mystico-spiritual practice found pretty much anywhere, from Buddha to Tantra, yoga to the Tao, Christian to Jew to hunkering down in a forlorn cave in the Himalayas, shivering in your sarong and praying to the gods for some coffee and a hot shower.

You gotta take care of your own karma. You gotta nurture your own heart, take care of what’s around you and immerse yourself in those you love, calm the fearful and anxious mind and choose where to place your energy as wisely as possible, offering heaps of compassion to all needful things in your world but careful not to overload the psycho-emotional circuitry lest you blow out your nav system and die.

It’s all another way of saying, the karma of the world is not yours to solve. This is the great teaching, shared across any responsible tradition you can name. Shoulder all the illnesses, traumas, violence, abuses, pollutions of the planet, feel the suffering and pains of every living creature, along with the seemingly imminent doom of the earth herself, and watch yourself implode.

All told, it’s a damn fine – and even more urgent – reminder right about now, as we race toward the end times of 2012 (call it ‘apocalypse’ or ‘great awakening’ according on your mood, whisky and level of delirious nakedness), the planet seeming to spin faster and faster on the Devil’s middle finger like a flaming basketball, as everyone across the globe hears the same gravid and desperate message: “Something’s gotta give.”

More: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2012/11/27/your-prius-will-not-save-you/

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