[Buddha-l] Outlaw karma

[Richard Hayes]

donna Bair-Mundy wrote:

> Oh, dear.  If the U.S. follows the plan of Dr. Hayes I will end up a 
> woman without a country unless the monarch can be reinstated.


The good news is that being without a country is an excellent way to remove one of the greatest obstacles to the goal of Buddhist practice. Few non-existent things cause more pain and turmoil in this world than the fanciful notion of a country. No sooner does one have a nation than people start thinking in terms of keeping out people who don't belong there, protecting it from others who would like to use some or all of its land to form a nation of their own, and putting everyone in jail who has no real interest in being part of a nation. All of these activities are diametrically opposed to the serious practice of Buddhism.

Richard