One hand allows the other, so much and me

[raybear]

I could have written a post about the steak torta I had for lunch and how much I love them in general, but it seems a little lame now when you get crappy news about someone else's life getting fcked over....again.

Instead I'll just post as reminders to myself excerpts from Thich Nhat Hanh's precept on engaged buddhism.

Do not accumulate wealth while millions are hungry. Do not take as the aim of your life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure. Live simply and share time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

Have the courage to speak out about situations of injustice, even when doing so may threaten your own safety.

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.


That last part is the line that gets me: depriving others of their chance to live. Most times this might be happening unintetionally. But sometimes it's absolutely explicitly.

How do some people sleep at night? It astounds me sometimes.

Comments

constantly trying to get your psychic approval...

[sean7232.livejournal.com]

no thanks to you, I got on the trail of this engaged Buddhist person you refer to yesterday, in my reading of bell hooks' teaching to transgress...funny, eh? we now return to your regulrly scheduled diversionary reality

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i posted
i deserve reinforcement :-)