[Buddha-l] Re: Natural lucidity for Socrates

[jkirk]

Re: Re: [Buddha-l] Re: Natural lucidity for Socrates .....You are but human 
like the rest of us, save that you are always busy and up to no good, 
traveling so many miles from your home, a nuisance to yourself and to 
others!... Soon you will be dead, and then you will own just as much of the 
earth as will suffice to bury you."
......
Dan Lusthaus
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In the days of Alexander and for a few centuries later, rulers could never 
be certain that their legacies and conquests could be ensured to future 
generations of their heirs, inclding their own chosen heirs, since fairly 
often if not most of the time such heirs ended up dead sooner than later--  
as someone else usurped the throne and the conquest (vide, e.g., the ancient 
kings in Central Asia, or the  Mughals). So in those days and for some 
centuries, the Jains were right.

Today, under the regime of global capitalism, the words of wisdom attributed 
either to Jains or to Zhuangzi or both no longer hold since, although the 
individual ends up occupying a small piece of earth or a chipped urn,  his 
heirs are allowed to continue the familial ownership of gigantic amounts of 
land and material resources. The human mind hasn't changed, but its 
unenlightened effects certainly have. This wasn't and isn't called the Kali 
Yuga for nothing. Way back when, the philosophers,
holy men, whatever, those who understood the workings of the human mind, 
knew what was up even then.

Joanna Kirkpatrick






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