On this eve of Easter, 2017, I find myself reflecting on a great teacher who walked among his fellow humans some 2000 years ago and brought a message of love. I refer of course to Jesus of Nazareth. The Jesus depicted in the Gospel of Thomas is the one dearest to my heart—much like a great Zen teacher in many respects.
Sometimes I wonder what he would make of the world we have built with its institutional greed, insensitivity, racism, sexism, hatred, militarism, ecological destruction, and on and on the depressing list might run. Have we progressed at all since his day? Likely yes, but hardly enough to be proud of. Deep problems abound.
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