[Buddha-l] Beyond Hope

[Gad Horowitz]

It's SO EASY for us righteous "liberals"--hey, we're "compassionate"
"buddhists too--to oppose the death penalty.  Whatever happened to the
movement for PRISON ABOLITION?  Eugene Debs:"While there is a soul in
prison, I am not free".  He did'nt say "innocent soul"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Hoogcarspel" <jehms at xs4all.nl>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Beyond Hope


> jkirk schreef:
>
> The death penalty seems to me to continue the bellicosity and belief in
the
> value of aggression of those who, and the societies that, impose it. But I
> have "given up hope" that in this country it will be ended. Even working
> against it seems to get nowhere, much less working for peace.
>
>
> Joanna
>
> for people like us who want deathpenalty to disappear altogether, it
doesn't matter much in which country it's still being carried out. But I
repete that this is what Camus meant with Sysiphus being a happy and wise
person and also what it means in the Bhagavad Giita when K.r.s.n.a advises
Arjuna to give up any attachment for the results of action and finally what
it means in Buddhism when a bodhisattva will bring an unendless multitude of
beings to bodhi and still doesn't have the idea that anyone has been brought
to bodhi.
>
>
>
> Erik
>
>
> www.xs4all.nl/~jehms
> weblog http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/blogs/blog.php?uid=2950
>
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