[Buddha-l] Fsat Mnifdlunses?

[Richard Hayes]

On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Dan Lusthaus wrote:

> Setting the record straight is apparently not part of being a  
> progressive
> 21st c Western Buddhist.

The principal project of Buddhism is to eliminate eliminable forms of  
duḥkha. Somewhat higher on my agenda these days than worrying about  
what labels to put on Vasubandhu is writing to America's senators to  
urge them 1) to abandon the expensive and dysfunctional profit-driven  
health-care system in the USA and to replace it with something an  
Ontarian or a Québecois might approve, 2) to pull all troops out of  
Iraq and Afghanistan and to close every American base that is not on  
American soil, 3) to dismantle every nuclear warhead that the USA has  
ever built, 4) to make it impossible for any state to use the death  
penalty, and 5) to impose a tax of $10 per gallon of gasoline to  
encourage Americans to rediscover walking and bicycling. (You see, I  
love my country to much that I want to help it become part of the the  
civilized world.)

Richard