[Buddha-l] greed, hatred, & delusion

[jkirk]

I've been sort of depressed for months at the state of the
country I'm a citizen of and also the deplorable state of the
world.  A couple glasses of red in the evening helps, but what
helps the most is either going for a 2 mile walk every other
early morning, or doing garden work every morning or evening
after it cools down. There's always a lot of that. If it isn't
there, I make it there.

Non- attachment ?--I wonder if that's possible only for
monastics.

In any case, the earth cycles have begun their downward slant
toward autumn --nights are so much cooler than they were, but
still it warms up a lot in daytime. So far the tomatoes are still
both producing and ripening.  Decided to get rid of the old
infested lawn in front and get a new one, consisting of special
low-water use turf. The lawn lady assured me that weeds wouldn't
grow in this new lawn.  Why don't I just get rid of the lawn? I'd
like to, but compassion for my neighbors, whose lawns look much
healthier than mine, prevents me. My street is distinctly not a
xeriscaping street. Also, compassion for the soil requires me to
cover it with something that will prevent my having to go round
weekly to dig up weeds and poke up grass while in the process
killing shiny black beetles that don't do any harm. New lawn
means less grass-work for me and more ops to deal with flowers
and veggies. The middle-way of summer living.  Like having to cut
back a special tiny white flowered but prodigiously growing aster
because it's next to the bird feeder, and today the squirrel
figured out how to get on the feeder by getting on the shrub.  He
must've eaten a pound of black oilseed. The aster has to be moved
when it gets cooler, near end of this coming month, moved to a
location he can't make use of. This year we had lots of western
goldfinches in our trees and on the grass--so pretty. So many
cats in the neighborhood that usually the only birds I see are
house finches. Sorry for all the animal and plant talk--let's
think of St Francis, a Catholic Buddhist--who loved nature.

Thanks for the sympathetic suggestions--maybe before I kick I'll
arrive at more non-attachment.

Joanna

 



  

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Jim
Peavler
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:18 PM
To: Buddhist discussion forum
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] greed, hatred, & delusion

You sound depressed!  Need to fix yourself a nice gin and tonic
and think about some soothing Buddhist content. I would suggest
non- attachment, but then we would have Richard all pissed off
too, and nobody wants that.


On Aug 27, 2008, at 4:04 PM, jkirk wrote:

> http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/189
>
> "...America is a land founded upon greed (for all the grant
rhetoric 
> about inalienable rights, the revolution was basically about
not 
> wanting to pay taxes, after all, and that obsession appears not
to 
> have changed much down the years), developed through greed, and
it 
> looks like greed may ultimately destroy the place. Who better
to 
> deliver the coup de grace to a national economy than a guy who
is so 
> stinking rich he doesn't remember how many houses he owns? Who
better 
> to run the American Titanic into an iceberg than the Navy
veteran son 
> of two generations of admirals (especially one whose antics
caused one 
> of the biggest non-hostile disasters on a US aircraft carrier
in 
> history)? Who better to have to face the wrath of a nation than
a guy 
> who couldn't even stand up to a pantywaist bully of a president
who 
> had sucker-punched him repeatedly?
>
> So I guess we can watch Obama channel Kerry and Gore with
equanimity. 
> The Republicans are going to get what they deserve anyhow, and
we 
> Americans, who bought the Kool-Aid for so long, will get ours
too."
>
> Amen, sister.
> Joanna
>
>
>
>
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