This idea, I do, I play with this idea, I don't want to assert it as a dogmatic fact,

but there's something that's always been in me that if or to the extent that people participate in this deepening and

broadening of consciousness under these Buddhist practices and other

practices within all traditions in the mystical strains of various but in Buddhism

it's so concrete.

The practices are made so clear.

When we do that, are we in the same way that when we politically struggle for progress we are pushing forward the

evolution materially and socially of humanity. When we engage in such practices

of deepening and expanding our consciousness and transcending our ego,

are we also involved in the evolution of human consciousness,

the evolution of human moral development?

When you weep as a total stranger sitting in the United States for the suffering of Palestinians

who you don't know, you've never met, you never will meet, across the world speaking a language you don't speak

worshiping a god you might not worship and you are doubled over in extreme weeping

pain for their suffering are you on the moral edge, the leading

cutting edge of human moral development?

I think you are.

So when we think about dialectically humanity as evolution, everything is in

constant flux, everything is in a state of evolution, we understand that

politically through our apprehension of dialectics within Marxism.

We understand that morally in the development of that part of our human heart that cares about

complete strangers and refuses to otherwise, right? That looks at the suffering

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