A
LITTLE BUDDHIST MINDFULNESS WOULD
BE GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY
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Saturday,
08 August 2009 20:21 |
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SD Watch, January 13, 2009 I try not to use Buddhism to make political points. One can be a
Democrat Buddhist or a Republican Buddhist. I don't pretend to know what
political party the Buddha would belong to. I'm guessing he'd be an
independent. But I came across a posting on The Middle Way that attempted to
explain the economic mess we're in from a Buddhist perspective. Here's an
excerpt: "The current global economic crisis is easily understood
through a Buddhist framework. The institutions saw the world as self and
other. They saw, and see, it as something to
"win". They focused on Profits and the Trickle Down Theory of
economics. Buddhism teaches us about no self, no other. It teaches us that
the "I" thing we grasp isn't real. It opens us to the world of
interconnectedness and interrelatedness. That's all well and good but the
thing is, we're here now." I would distill it even further in Buddhist thought. We're in
the soup economically because of a lack of mindfulness. We at the micro level
and those at the macro level didn't pay close attention to economic
decisions. When you make a bad or take out an ill advised loan, it's
eventually going to come home to roost. Add a little karma to the mix--you
reap what you sew--or for every action there is a reaction--we have some
problems. |
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