we can meditate but we cannot not notice what is happening. if mediation is consciousness we will be meditating perforce on the destruction we are causing. most of every dollar goes to war and the industry that causes so much suffering and pollution and extinction of species. the death toll of the civilization of war. i think of all the koala bears who cannot escape burning in the trees and all the animals —including the humans who started the fires—who can run with nowhere to escape to.