According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?

The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.

Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature. If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it? Who would take responsibility for the world?

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

Life as an end is qualitatively different from life as a means.