not really though...
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Are you going to elaborate on that?
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When the Buddha said this, the people he was communicating with lived in a completely different political and economic structure than people today do. Trying to accomplish the translation between this statement and the familiar conceptual inventory of modern capitalism, to which
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reaction seems to me to be specific to, robs it of any clear cut meaning. The idea of "having resources" probably suffers the most from this.
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Oh certainly yeah, I only said the passage sounds reactionary (to me). The book I screencapped is Stephen Batchelor's Confession of a Buddhist Atheist which is a great read if you're interested, I'm lightly taking aim at it here because it leans on this passage to............
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support the view that the Dharma is social/political as well as just personal or spiritual but just assumes that the correct development of that is in a leftist direction, as do most discussions of Buddhism and politics by westerners, which is irritating to me.
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The Buddha was the reactionary par excellence imo
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