The Buddha sounding like a reactionarypic.twitter.com/p6xI3uad7t
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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
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.
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............
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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