[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:20 -0600, Lee Dillion wrote:

> There is content and then there is method.  Perhaps this is Richard's 
> subtle Buddhist way of getting others who disagree with his content to 
> breathe and meditate?

My guess is that everyone is either dead or breathing without any
encouragement from me. You are right, however, that it is never far from
my mind to encourage people to meditate on the causes of dukkha and on
how it might be eliminated. Given that we live in a world in which there
is a lot of dukkha that could be eliminated if people thought about it
and then acted on it, and given that a lot of that eliminable dukkha is
promoted by the choices that we make collectively and severally, it
never seems off-topic to me to talk about education, politics and other
institutionalized forms of promoting greed, hatred and delusion.

-- 
Richard Hayes
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"Books are useless to us until our inner book opens; then all other
books are good so far as they confirm our book."
        (Swami Vivekananda)