[Buddha-l] ?????

[jkirk]

Funny--love clever ethnocentric aspersions, & this NZ one is
good. 

Yes, I'm convinced that this land is not "my land" anymore, to
paraphrase a once 
popular song. We've discussed collective karma on the list a few
times over the years I've been 
on it, anyway, and now IMO, as a country of sheeple who allowed
all the mayhem, violence, and corruption of the years since the
'sainted' Ronnie Ray-gun: we are getting our just desserts. 

The only Buddhist reference I can think of right now is that in
his time kings only conquered territories, they didn't use armies
to put their own people under the yoke (as we are now threatened
with here). In fact capitalism had not yet been invented--there's
another reference to the Buddha's times. Commerce existed,
yes--global commerce even existed--but not capitalism.

No cheers,
Joanna
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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Jayarava
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] ?????



I'm from New Zealand (which for the bloody Americans is in the
southern hemisphere), but live in bloody England and trace my
descent from the bloody English. The Māori name for our country
is Aotearoa usually translated as "Land of the Long White Cloud",
or alternatively as "Land of the Wrong White Crowd".

Jayarava






      

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