A narcissistic millionaire that is never happy and needs to be surrounded by beautiful women and being sucked up by everybody to please his ego who spends billions to build walls.
According to Buddhism is it bad for her to try to change her external conditions or perhaps she is encouraged to do so because after all she is taking action for the everybody's well-being? Should Buddhists fight for truth, freedom, justice etc. or that depends on whether you experience suffering(Dukkha) or not? Should we bother about the external world if it doesn't affect in our way to attain Enlightenment? What's the vision Buddhists, their leaders and their dogma have on this political or external matter?An oriental Buddhist girl who is exploited working in a sweatshop" which accepts the world as it is and follows the Dharma no questions asked.
An oriental Buddhist girl who is exploited working in a sweatshop" which accepts the world as it is and follows the Dharma no questions asked.
Should we bother about the external world if it doesn't affect in our way to attain Enlightenment? — pbxman
To understand what needs to change externally, one first needs to have some form of awakening internally.
You are encouraged to break your identification with your ego, which drives your desire to change the world solely for your own benefit. — Tim3003
We might focus on the phrase "you are encouraged to break your identification with your ego". Such a conception seems to assume that "you" and "ego" are two different things, and one is supposed to manage the other in some manner. — Jake
As example, consider the phrase "my thoughts" or "I am thinking XYZ". All such phrases imply a division between what is sometimes called the observer and the observed. — Jake
It's my sense that all such perceived divisions are an illusion generated by the way thought works. If true, then procedures such as "breaking identification with ego" would seem to strengthen that illusion. — Jake
Correct. If there wasn't one, when you stopped thinking you'd cease to exist. — Tim3003
I am often accused by the mindfullness group leader whose group I go to of thinking too much. I think you are guilty of this too. I've learned that it is a mistake to believe thought holds all the answers. I suggest you read a book on Zen to learn more.. — Tim3003
As example, consider the phrase "my thoughts" or "I am thinking XYZ". All such phrases imply a division between what is sometimes called the observer and the observed.
— Jake
Correct. If there wasn't one, when you stopped thinking you'd cease to exist. — Tim3003
We are made of thought, so we do cease to exist when we stop thinking. — Jake
Isn't Buddhism just a political too to indoctrinate people to make them submissive and willing to be exploited with the existential promise to be saved in the next life? What's the psychological impact of reincarnation, karma and only looking trying to fix things only from the inside? — pbxman
Our awareness is not created by thought. It is present at a more fundamental level. We share it and the instinct to act on what our senses tell us with animals. Mind has developed on top of that along with language. You still confuse the self constructed by language and mind with existance at a more primal level. — Tim3003
Isn't Buddhism just a political too to indoctrinate people to make them submissive and willing to be exploited with the existential promise to be saved in the next life? — pbxman
What's the psychological impact of reincarnation, karma and only looking trying to fix things only from the inside? — pbxman
In the same way people from India then to be less materialistic and more conformististic because they believe in the law of Karma. — pbxman
That is to say people from Buddhist countries tend to be more submissive and prone to change the inside than the outside. — pbxman
I don't agree. This seems like an unsubstantiated claim. — Tzeentch
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