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SUMMARY:Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue  8/15/21
DESCRIPTION:photo by Abe Green \n  \n  \nOpen Road Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue \n  \n August 15\, 2021 \n  \nThe purpose of life is to know yourself\, love yourself\, trust yourself\, and be yourself. \n—tag on a Yogi Tea bag \n* \n  \n7/15/21 \n#222 A Very Naive Idea \n  \n“Many people aspire to go to a place where pain and suffering do not exist\, a place where there is only happiness. This is a rather dangerous idea\, for compassion is not possible without pain and suffering.” (from Your True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh) \n  \nWe don’t want to invite suffering\, but ideally we learn to welcome suffering when it enters our lives. If we live our lives fearfully avoiding suffering and pain\, we live a very limited existence. Living too carefully\, never risking pain\, failure\, unhappiness or loss cannot result in a full and fulfilling life. It results in a careful life; that is not enough for me. \n  \nSuffering bonds you to others in a deep\, rich\, long-lasting way. My first marriage of thirteen years was frightening\, abusive and dehumanizing\, and that is how I emerged. I still have scars\, but resilience and determination (and the specter of poverty) were more powerful motivators than continuing in a fearful\, cautious life. \n  \nThe gift of suffering was that I deeply\, instinctively care for others\, all others who suffer\, in any way\, not just in situations similar to mine. I have the three gifts that come from suffering: compassion\, understanding\, and love. That is the richness that comes from suffering. My heart is full. \n  \n—Jude Russell \n* \n  \n(Ronni Lacroute sent this poem by Mary Oliver:) \n  \nMindful \n  \nEvery day \nI see or hear \nsomething \nthat more or less \n  \nkills me \nwith delight\, \nthat leaves me \nlike a needle \n  \nin the haystack \nof light. \nIt was what I was born for— \nto look\, to listen\, \n  \nto lose myself \ninside this soft world— \nto instruct myself \nover and over \n  \nin joy\, \nand acclamation. \nNor am I talking  \nabout the exceptional\, \n  \nthe fearful\, the dreadful\, \nthe very extravagant— \nbut of the ordinary\, \nthe common\, the very drab\, \n  \nthe daily presentations. \nOh\, good scholar\, \nI say to myself\, \nhow can you help \n  \nbut grow wise \nwith such teachings \nas these— \nthe untrimmable light \n  \nof the world\, \nthe ocean’s shine\, \nthe prayers that are made \nout of grass? \n  \n—Mary Oliver \n* \n  \n(These are some excerpts from Michel’s meditation journal. The numbers refer to Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Your True Home.) \n  \nJuly 4\, 2021  Independence Day \n  \n….Today is a day to celebrate freedom. Yet\, how many of us are truly FREE? I really wonder: Must one be trapped in a concrete cage\, behind locked doors\, shut away from the rest of the world and forgotten to become un-free? No. Freedom can be lost\, taken away\, and given away from and by anyone outside of prison or within the box. In fact\, I’m not thinking of a prison for the body\, but one created within a mind\, and a tyranny not from others\, or perpetuated by “others\,” but of one from a tyrant within… \n  \nMany are prisoners of the mind. Some are as of yet unaware of the plight they face. Some have lost their focus—mistaking a tyranny from within for an external enmity. Each of us has a mind. Do we feed it? Exercise it wisely? Take it out to play? to learn? to exercise\, face challenges as it grows?…. \n  \nJuly 8\, 2021   #159 A Healing Mantra \n  \nIf we share compassion through a positive gesture/action\, to express being fully present (mindful) we can uplift another from his or her pit of despair to find a stable footing from which to move forward. We may also need to say such things to our own self. When I’m down or struggling\, there isn’t always a bodhisattva nearby to offer compassionate words. I can be that supporter of myself simply through positive self-talk…. \n  \nJuly 15\, 2021  #166 A Real Friendship \n  \nMay I offer that in learning to love self and/or other\, the key is to see the line of separation vanish. I’ve heard\, “Love your neighbor as yourself\,” and struggled due to lack (I thought) of ability to love myself. Lately a thought is percolating that if I stop seeing you as separate and apart from me\, but begin to see our inter-connectedness\, or our inter-dependency\, then I can learn to demonstrate love to both (in different ways). \n  \n—Michel Deforge \n* \n  \nHappy early 70th birthday! As my present to you\, I’ve written a poem in your honor: \n  \nAFTER \n  \nAnd you may find that you have nothing \nto say\, and that’s okay. The bird \n  \nyou pictured now because that’s the way \nthe brain works \n  \nand the concentric circles of its song— \nthey are always there. Jung defined \n  \nthe unconscious as everything \nyou have forgotten\, everything \n  \nyou’re not currently thinking about\, \nand everything you do not know. \n  \nThat narrows it down. \nSo the conscious mind is really \n  \nonly very little of what goes on— \nlike a lightbulb compared to the dawn. \n  \n—Alex Tretbar \n* \n  \nAugust 11\, 2021 \n  \nI’m turning 70 next Tuesday\, August 17th. It doesn’t seem possible! How did I get so old? It seems like just last week I was 19. What happened? \n  \nMaybe the reason getting older is bewildering is that our body ages\, but something inside us doesn’t. Whoever it is\, or whatever it is that looks out through my eyes—and even observes my thoughts!—hasn’t aged a bit! \n  \nI’m enjoying my human life on Earth! I didn’t make a plan. I’ve been meandering along like the half-wit third son in the fairy tales who somehow ends up with the princess\, thanks to help he got from a magic toad. (My dad once said to me: “John\, if anyone says you’re a wit\, they’d be half right.”) \n  \nI’ve been (and still am) very fortunate. (On another occasion\, my dad said: “John\, if you fell into a ditch\, you’d come up with the deed to the town.”) I suppose the greatest good fortune was that I got hefty amounts of love and encouragement when I was a little boy.  \n  \nWhen I got a little older\, instead of going to Vietnam to kill people\, I went to India to study meditation and mindfulness from wise yogis. That was lucky. \n  \nIt was my good fortune to come of age in the Hippie Era. Had I been born ten years earlier\, I might have become a beatnik! Hippies were into Peace & Love. That sounded good to me. Still does. Flower power! \n  \nFinding Nancy Scharbach was unexpected. More Good Fortune!  \n  \nAbout the same time we got together\, I wandered into a prison. I met a lot of lovely people there. We had long talks. We put on plays. We had great times together! I still have lots of friends in prison. We write to each other. I have friends who have graduated from prison\, who I can see on the outside. \n  \nI have lots of friends! If you’re reading this\, you are probably one of them. \n  \nI have much much more to be grateful for. Too much to try to describe here. And fresh blessings arrive every day\, without fail. I’m grateful that I feel grateful. I’m happy that I’m happy. I love loving and being loved. \n  \n—Johnny Stallings \n* \n  \n                          Your Walden \n  \nFor some\, only sleep is the hut by moonlight\,  \nsleep the pond pure and still\, sleep the essential  \nrefuge for solitary rumination\, the secret escape \nfrom quiet desperations that each day crowd your breath\,  \ndim your vision\, narrow your hope. Others find a porch \nand sit\, composed\, or a tree to muse in shade\, or a hilltop\,  \nhigher than wires and roads\, to look far\, kindling the power  \nto simplify\, to transcend\, if only for a moment. \n  \nYou learned the hard way your soul is green and withers\,  \nstarving without some touch to wood\, earth\, and silence. You \ntook the crash course in complexity for years and years. So now \nyou find a place separate from screen and machine\, a place  \nbeyond getting and spending\, a space to let the buried eden  \nof the wild self bud and blossom. You take your Walden—call it  \nringer-off\, screen asleep\, brass keys all banished to the drawer— \nso at last you may dawn into yourself\, deliberate\, and awake. \n  \n—Kim Stafford \n* \n  \nI love where I now live (North Central Montana)\, it’s where I grew up. I understand it in ways that elude those not from here\, and though the land and its people can be difficult\, it is also magnificently beautiful and allows me access to a natural world I’ve not found elsewhere. \n  \nWhat is often missing here though is my ability to engage in the kind of conversations that challenge me\, expand me\, and support me as I journey away from a spiritually vacuous “self” toward enlightenment. \n  \nThat’s why “The Open Road” is such a precious gift—I feel I belong to this wonderful community of thinkers and explorers. I continue to have struggles and setbacks\, but with each letter I breathe in a freshness that renews my desire to be a better human\, to care and to really see myself in others and they in me. \n  \nAnd it is getting easier! \n  \nI savor all the writings\, but especially by those I personally know. An excellent example is String Clements “Learning to Smile.” I shared the incentive yard at TRCI with String and many a day we practiced mindfulness as we walked the track. (Remember General Sherman\, Tim?) \n  \nThese days I practice my mindfulness most often out in nature where I’ve come to realize all things carry the same spark I carry in my own heart and each thing I observe becomes “the best part.” There are no saints…or sinners\, no self-righteous…no condemned\, everything is on equal terms. I’ve concluded not only do I belong to the human tribe\, I also belong to the life tribe\, and strive to conduct myself accordingly. I’d like to add that mindfulness can be practiced anywhere (as Mr. Clements and I proved at TRCI). Most difficult for me is just getting my mind to “shut up” and listen. \n  \nHere are a few thoughts: \n  \n* Life will always challenge you. The trick is to polish all  the moments to make them shine. That’s both sides of the coin\, not just the pretty or easy ones. Each moment\, each day is precious and should never be wasted or cast aside. \n—Anne Burke quote from Salt of the Earth by Ethan Hubbard \n  \n* Walk in good direction\, come to good place. \n  \n*Only for a time have we borrowed our life from the sum of things. \n  \n* Let go of expectations and accept whatever shows up for you. \n—Katie Radditz \n  \nI thank all who have touched my life in such a positive\, kind\, and loving way—you now live in me! \n  \nAnd I will not forget you. \n  \nPeace and love \n  \nAbe Green  2021 \n  \n(Abe added this:) \n  \nPaul Enso Hillman spoke these words: \n  \nI say “Namaste” because I like what it means\, not because I’m a Hindu. \n  \nA lot of people think I’m a Christian because they think I talk about Christian values\, but the truth is I’m really talking about Human values. \n  \nI’ve been asked if I’m a Buddhist just because I’ve discovered inner Peace. \n  \nA lot of my friends are Pagans and they think I’m one also because I say that being in nature is my idea of going to church. \n  \nDo you want to know what I really am? \n  \nIt’s very simple\, I don’t need a label to define me. \n  \nI am a piece of the universe\, sentient and manifested and… \n  \nI am awake! \n  \n—Abe Green \n* \n  \nAugust 15\, 2021 \nMeditation and Mindfulness \nHAPPY BIRTHDAY\, JOHNNY!!! \n  \nLast month I sent in a topic on Suffering\, but I forgot to include the attachment in the email to Johnny. He said\, “No worries\, I’ll just put it in the August edition.” But then I thought\, how lame to offer a writing on Suffering for Johnny’s very special birthday edition. It really should be something more in keeping with Johnny’s true raison d’être: LOVE! \n  \nSo # 326 – Equanimity  – fills the bill to perfection. \n  \n“True love does not choose one person. When true love is there\, you shine like a lamp. You don’t just shine on one person in the room. That light you emit is for everyone in the room. If you really have love in you\, everyone around you will benefit—not only humans\, but animals\, plants\, and minerals. Love\, true love\, is that.True love is equanimity.” \n  \nThis is Johnny. This is what Johnny emits. His love just spreads out\, sometimes to the bewilderment (how can he be so patient with that guy???)\, the embarrassment (uh oh\, here come the tears again!)\, the frustration (can’t he see that that guy really doesn’t deserve love?) of others. That is Johnny: He just loves with equanimity and abandon. \n  \nJude Russell \n* \n  \nEvery moment offers a myriad of wonders\, opportunities and insights – it is just a matter of how and what we focus our attention on\, and how we perceive it.  – John Kabat Zinn  \n  \nMy friend Sarah has been feeling disheartened lately – about the state of our Earth’s health\, the continuing pandemic\, and her small role in life. She is a generous and engaged person. Her daughter has moved nearby and Sarah loves being with her new grandchild. Her wishes have been fulfilled. But after such high expectations\, the question of what is her purpose in life set in. She remembers what her mother once told her\, “Remember it’s not the big things that count\, it’s the small things.” There will always be the big issues looming. It is a challenge to be engaged in helping to change the world for the better. Meditation can help by training us to focus on our personal small moments of happiness\, compassion\, and healing.   \n  \nIf we choose to rush or force meditation\, we might not experience much or have many great moments.  \n  \nBut by allowing ourselves to be curious\, inquisitive\, attentive and have an open mind\, we can make those small moments wonderful.  \n  \nI have been reading a classic Sufi book called The Conference of the Birds. It is full of parables about taking a spiritual journey. My friend was listening to a CD of chanting and birds flew to his deck to listen. As soon as the music ended the birds flew off. Another friend had two birds come sit on her balcony when she moved into a new apartment. It helped to ease her loneliness and to help her make a transition. These moments that are particular to us can help move us in a direction of paying attention\, of being engaged inwardly as well as outwardly\, and of loving the beauty of the world. It can make us grateful for being alive.    \n  \nI have been enjoying reading and studying The Conference of the Birds along with my friends who had the birds magically visit them. I have also been paying attention to the gifts of feathers that my neighbors—blue jays\, wild turkeys\, crows\, wrens\, even the chickens—have left in my yard and along the paths that I walk. I find one almost every day and have a collection now in my garden flower bed. These are small moments and small tokens that make me joyous to feel the “interbeing” that Thay instructs us to realize. It makes me happy to be alive here and now\, and to share this with whoever comes my way. Gratitude is a strong mindfulness practice for beginning and ending the day.   \n  \nThis morning Sarah sent me a text saying she is paying attention to the birds too! She wrote\, “I’m enjoying migrations!”  \n  \nWhat can be a small moment for some\, can be the single most important moment in another person’s life.  \n  \nHow about you? Do you sometimes see big things in small moments?  \n  \nMay you be aware and happy in some small moments today.  Thank you for being a part of  our mindfulness group and sharing your own experiences here. Below is a poem by Kim’s dad\, William Stafford.   \n  \nBe well and know peace\,  Katie  \n  \nThings I Learned Last Week \n  \nAnts\, when they meet each other\, \nusually pass on the right. \n  \nSometimes you can open a sticky \ndoor with your elbow. \n  \nA man in Boston has dedicated himself \nto telling about injustice. \nFor three thousand dollars he will \ncome to your town and tell you about it. \n  \nSchopenhauer was a pessimist but \nhe played the flute. \n  \nYeats\, Pound\, and Eliot saw art as \ngrowing from other art. They studied that. \n  \nIf I ever die\, I’d like it to be \nin the evening. That way\, I’ll have \nall the dark to go with me\, and no one \nwill see how I begin to hobble along. \n  \nIn the Pentagon one person’s job is to \ntake pins out of towns\, hills\, and fields\, \nand then save the pins for later. \n  \n—William Stafford \n* \n  \n8-10-21 \n  \nGot your letter today: “The Golden World!” I needed to hear that more than you know\, Johnny. I need to come home and it’s nice to know & remember that I can come home & how good home is. I was so focused on what was lost that I lost track of what I have & what I have is pretty damn good. In fact\, what I lost I loved very much\, but what I have now is very much here & not lost & that right now is life & life must be lived\, now\, loved and grown. Sometimes I wish that you would have been my father\, Johnny\, & in many ways you have been. \n  \nThe Golden World is real. I forgot about it. It should be shared with the world. It will make all the world a better place. I’m done being in misery….I’m on my way home. \n  \n—Rocky Hutchinson
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SUMMARY:peace\, love\, happiness & understanding  9/2/21
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nTHE OPEN ROAD \npeace\, love\, happiness & understanding \n  \n  \n  \nInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality\, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. \n  \n—Martin Luther King\, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail\,” April 16\, 1963 \n  \n  \nSeptember 2\, 2021 \n  \n  \nWorld War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated 70-85 million people were killed in the war\, or died from war-related disease and famine. Of those who died\, it is estimated that 50-55 million were civilians. \n  \nNear the end of the war\, humans got together—in the hope of preventing future wars—and founded the United Nations. The idea is simple: use diplomacy\, rather than weapons\, to solve problems. In the original charter—which was adopted in June of 1945 and took effect in October of that year—the member nations took on some other big jobs\, in addition to maintaining peace: protecting human rights\, delivering humanitarian aid\, promoting sustainable development\, and upholding international law. At present\, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says there are 82.4 million “forcibly displaced people” on our planet. The United Nations is the primary organization which provides food\, shelter\, clothing\, safety and medical care for refugees\, and helps them to find a permanent home. \n  \nOne of the most important achievements of the United Nations is the creation\, in 1948\, of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. I like to read it from time to time. These are our legally established rights—yours\, mine\, everyones!: \n  \n  \nUniversal Declaration of Human Rights \n  \nThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)  is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world\, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out\, for the first time\, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired\, and paved the way for\, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties\, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).  \n  \nPreamble \nWhereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom\, justice and peace in the world\, \nWhereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind\, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people\, \nWhereas it is essential\, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse\, as a last resort\, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression\, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law\, \nWhereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations\, \nWhereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights\, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom\, \nWhereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve\, in co-operation with the United Nations\, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms\, \nWhereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge\, \nNow\, therefore\, \nThe General Assembly\, \nProclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations\, to the end that every individual and every organ of society\, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind\, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures\, national and international\, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance\, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.  \n  \nArticle 1 \nAll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. \n  \nArticle 2 \nEveryone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration\, without distinction of any kind\, such as race\, colour\, sex\, language\, religion\, political or other opinion\, national or social origin\, property\, birth or other status. Furthermore\, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political\, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs\, whether it be independent\, trust\, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty. \n  \nArticle 3 \nEveryone has the right to life\, liberty and security of person. \n  \nArticle 4 \nNo one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. \n  \nArticle 5 \nNo one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel\, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. \n  \nArticle 6 \nEveryone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. \n  \nArticle 7 \nAll are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. \n  \nArticle 8 \nEveryone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. \n  \nArticle 9 \nNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest\, detention or exile. \n  \nArticle 10 \nEveryone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal\, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. \n  \nArticle 11 \n\nEveryone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.\nNo one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence\, under national or international law\, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.\n\n  \nArticle 12 \nNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy\, family\, home or correspondence\, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. \n  \nArticle 13 \n\nEveryone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.\nEveryone has the right to leave any country\, including his own\, and to return to his country.\n\n  \nArticle 14 \n\nEveryone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.\nThis right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.\n\n  \nArticle 15 \n\nEveryone has the right to a nationality.\nNo one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.\n\n  \nArticle 16 \n\nMen and women of full age\, without any limitation due to race\, nationality or religion\, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage\, during marriage and at its dissolution.\nMarriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.\nThe family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.\n\n  \nArticle 17 \n\nEveryone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.\nNo one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.\n\n  \nArticle 18 \nEveryone has the right to freedom of thought\, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief\, and freedom\, either alone or in community with others and in public or private\, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching\, practice\, worship and observance. \n  \nArticle 19 \nEveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek\, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. \n  \nArticle 20 \n\nEveryone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.\nNo one may be compelled to belong to an association.\n\n  \nArticle 21 \n\nEveryone has the right to take part in the government of his country\, directly or through freely chosen representatives.\nEveryone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.\nThe will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.\n\n  \nArticle 22 \nEveryone\, as a member of society\, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization\, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State\, of the economic\, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. \n  \nArticle 23 \n\nEveryone has the right to work\, to free choice of employment\, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.\nEveryone\, without any discrimination\, has the right to equal pay for equal work.\nEveryone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity\, and supplemented\, if necessary\, by other means of social protection.\nEveryone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.\n\n  \nArticle 24 \nEveryone has the right to rest and leisure\, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. \n  \nArticle 25 \n\nEveryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family\, including food\, clothing\, housing and medical care and necessary social services\, and the right to security in the event of unemployment\, sickness\, disability\, widowhood\, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.\nMotherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children\, whether born in or out of wedlock\, shall enjoy the same social protection.\n\n  \nArticle 26 \n\nEveryone has the right to education. Education shall be free\, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.\nEducation shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding\, tolerance and friendship among all nations\, racial or religious groups\, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.\nParents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.\n\n  \nArticle 27 \n\nEveryone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community\, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.\nEveryone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific\, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.\n\n  \nArticle 28 \nEveryone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized. \n  \nArticle 29 \n\nEveryone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.\nIn the exercise of his rights and freedoms\, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality\, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.\nThese rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.\n\n  \nArticle 30 \nNothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State\, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. \n  \n 
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