[Buddha-l] Getting real about Buddhism and capitalism

[jkirk]

>
> Most Buddhist teachers appear to be completely unaware of the pernicious 
> role of economics in the conditioning of consciousness. They either 
> blandly accept, or enthusiastically endorse whatever the existing 
> socio-economic status quo is. This is even true for 99% of Buddhists who 
> consider themselves "engaged" - their political/social/economic critique 
> rarely strays from a predictably "liberal" agenda that at most seeks to, 
> ever so gently and slowly, reform capitalism.
>
> - Curt
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Such could not be said of Buddhadasa, the one teacher who actually made
a trenchant if idealistic critique of social order and disorder.
However, what would you have instead of reform? bloody revolution in this 
era of
high tech mass murder? where would that leave the world and the beings 
within it?
Continuous wars going on right now are bad enough.
Joanna