06-01-2015, 08:17 AM
No culture has a monopoly on the sacred, not even Hawaiian culture. Some people believe that building the largest and most technologically advanced telescope in human history on Maunakea is a sacred act that is no less protected than going there to make a pile of stones and chant. Supporters of TMT also have rights to pursue their vision of the sacred as they see it. Maunakea, as a truely sacred space, stands outside human definitions and boundaries in space and time. There is room there for many approaches to the sacred to co-exist in harmony. To treat this as a winner-take-all political contest is to trample like cattle what is claimed as being protected.
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You can't fix Samsara.
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You can't fix Samsara.