Socialism & Communism
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Socialism & Communism
For those who prefer videos to texts, ponder (not react immediately, if possible) on these offerings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
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Nicholas Weeks wrote:For those who prefer videos to texts, ponder (not react immediately, if possible) on these offerings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
Oh for lord's sake man. You're still fighting the cold war.
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Nicholas Weeks, I have a very good book recommendation for you, related to this topic. You'll find it quite relevant and up to date for your interests:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0870212400/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0870212400/
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For goodness sake, you really think it ended? The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.Malcolm wrote:Oh for lord's sake man. You're still fighting the cold war.Nicholas Weeks wrote:For those who prefer videos to texts, ponder (not react immediately, if possible) on these offerings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
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We have brakes. Do we leave it to spin wildly?Nicholas Weeks wrote:The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.
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No, advocate and inspire people to ignore materialistic cravings. Instead turn them toward living the buddhadharma.dharmagoat wrote:What else? Do we leave it to rot?Nicholas Weeks wrote:The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
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Nicholas Weeks wrote:For goodness sake, you really think it ended? The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.Malcolm wrote:Oh for lord's sake man. You're still fighting the cold war.Nicholas Weeks wrote:For those who prefer videos to texts, ponder (not react immediately, if possible) on these offerings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
You prefer the Christocratic Right?
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Oh yes, and throwing in your lot with Fundamentalist Christians Like Pence is really going to advance that agenda...Nicholas Weeks wrote:No, advocate and inspire people to ignore materialistic cravings. Instead turn them toward living the buddhadharma.dharmagoat wrote:What else? Do we leave it to rot?Nicholas Weeks wrote:The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.
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Definitely. Capitalism won.Nicholas Weeks wrote: For goodness sake, you really think it ended?
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I am less concerned about military conflict than the soft socialism that the New Left promoted.Norwegian wrote:Nicholas Weeks, I have a very good book recommendation for you, related to this topic. You'll find it quite relevant and up to date for your interests:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0870212400/
Try this small, yet potent work by a Eastern European who knows the power of the totalitarian Left is still strong and growing:
https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Democracy- ... +democracy
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Ho Hum - straw man again...Malcolm wrote:Oh yes, and throwing in your lot with Fundamentalist Christians Like Pence is really going to advance that agenda...Nicholas Weeks wrote:No, advocate and inspire people to ignore materialistic cravings. Instead turn them toward living the buddhadharma.dharmagoat wrote: What else? Do we leave it to rot?
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Those Godless secularists! Convincing the children that the earth is round, that Creation is a lie and your uncle is an ape, that surgeons should wash their hands... Left unchecked, they'll end slavery, give women the vote, stop child labor, and they won't stop there!Nicholas Weeks wrote:For goodness sake, you really think it ended? The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.Malcolm wrote:Oh for lord's sake man. You're still fighting the cold war.Nicholas Weeks wrote:For those who prefer videos to texts, ponder (not react immediately, if possible) on these offerings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/VOCvideos
<pearls clutched>
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???
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One thing I like about living and practicing Dharma in the USA is that I am free to do so. We have freedom of conscience here and it is excellent. Want to practice Dharma? Go for it, man. That is a strength.Nicholas Weeks wrote:No, advocate and inspire people to ignore materialistic cravings. Instead turn them toward living the buddhadharma.dharmagoat wrote:What else? Do we leave it to rot?Nicholas Weeks wrote:The secular ideologues of much of the Left still prefer political so-called solutions to try and fix samsara.
You seem to propose some kind of Dharmic theocracy in which Buddhist practice is mandated from the top down. Be honest with yourself: who would that convince? How effective would that be?
If we want to promote Dharma, we must do so through our actions: how we treat our neighbors, how we contribute to our society. Not by giving orders or castigating straw-man communists like it's 1951.
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Not at all, never have I written such nonsense.dga: You seem to propose some kind of Dharmic theocracy...
Straw men and red herrings, pitiable retorts.
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No, this is what conservatism means now, guns and Jesus.Nicholas Weeks wrote:Ho Hum - straw man again...Malcolm wrote:Oh yes, and throwing in your lot with Fundamentalist Christians Like Pence is really going to advance that agenda...Nicholas Weeks wrote:
No, advocate and inspire people to ignore materialistic cravings. Instead turn them toward living the buddhadharma.
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Malcolm wrote:Definitely. Capitalism won.Nicholas Weeks wrote: For goodness sake, you really think it ended?
No doubt.
དམ་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ཆེ་བ་དང་།
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
རྟོག་གེའི་ཡུལ་མིན་བླ་མའི་བྱིན་རླབས་དང་།
སྐལ་ལྡན་ལས་འཕྲོ་ཅན་གྱིས་རྟོགས་པ་སྟེ།
དེ་ནི་ཤེས་རབ་ལ་ནི་ལོ་རྟོག་སེལ།།
"Absolute Truth is not an object of analytical discourse or great discriminating wisdom,
It is realized through the blessing grace of the Guru and fortunate Karmic potential.
Like this, mistaken ideas of discriminating wisdom are clarified."
- (Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, from his summary of "The Ocean of Definitive Meaning")
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There is an alternative:
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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I don't care if a cat is black or brown, as long as it catches mice. Unfortunately, neither capitalism nor socialism has proven to be worth a damn in that respect.
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tingdzin wrote:I don't care if a cat is black or brown, as long as it catches mice. Unfortunately, neither capitalism nor socialism has proven to be worth a damn in that respect.
Yes, and then there is the fact that neither system is ecologically rational.
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It's taken me many years Malcolm but slowly I'm getting turned on to the deep ecology idea. This seems to be the only horse in the race which is not just another system of grasping.
I still don't think anyone can crusade under any of these flags however. It may be possible to try to persuade someone of the virtue of applying the brakes. But then, when that does not work, exit the vehicle. Will samsara ever really end?
I still don't think anyone can crusade under any of these flags however. It may be possible to try to persuade someone of the virtue of applying the brakes. But then, when that does not work, exit the vehicle. Will samsara ever really end?
Generally, enjoyment of speech is the gateway to poor [results]. So it becomes the foundation for generating all negative emotional states. Jampel Pawo, The Certainty of the Diamond Mind
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