[Buddha-l] Good resource site shut down

[Joy Vriens]

Hi Jo,

Thank you for attenuating my enthusiasm and putting things in 
perspective. Saying "it's their karma" is denying responsability, 
bodhisattvas can be do-gooders paving highways to hell with good 
intentions.  And then there are those who want to quit samsara and not 
to manage it. Stalemate? Perhaps Chinese investments will do the trick?

Joy

Hm---the template for starving ethnics used to be Armenians ("Eat up 
your dinner, dear--remember the starving Armenians.") --now it's 
Africans. I would hope, in their eagerness to make merit and/or to be 
bodhisattvas, that Buddhists would give some preliminary thought as to 
the harm already caused by transfers of coin and credit to corrupt 
African governments and organisations, as well as to the fact that some 
NGOs simply end up providing jobs for non-Africans even as they act as 
quartermasters for US-produced commodities -- while the starvation and 
mayhem in Africa not only continues, but gets worse. Joanna