[Buddha-l] Re: Re: Buddhist Charities (was Will new the pope verify...

[John Whalen-Bridge]

For specific details on full-time monks running into trouble when
hitting the

Golden Years w/out health insurance,  see SHOES OUTSIDE THE DOOR.

 

>One issue that has concerned me a lot for a long time is the way in
which individuals 

>(of whom I know too many) have dedicated almost all their time, energy
and money into 

>working for Buddhist (and other non-Christian) organizations that
either fold or lack 

>the resources to take care of these individuals when they become old or
sick. They end 

>up having no retirement funds, no health care and no resources to
provide for a digni-

>fied senility. In a country like the USA, where every herring hangs by
its own economic 

>tail and where the very idea of society taking care of individuals in
need is increase-

>ingly under attack, this is a very serious problem.

 

-- 

Richard Hayes

Department of Philosophy

University of New Mexico

 

Associate Professor John Whalen-Bridge
English Language and Literature
National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Road
Singapore 117570 
http://courses.nus.edu.sg/Course/elljwb/jwb/default.htm  office: +65
6874-6029   /  fax: +(65) 6773-2981

 

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