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Posted: 18 May 2022

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 Dinesh
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In a world in which 20 percent of the people suffer in absolute poverty as defined by the World Bank, am I really doing as much good as I can, as I should? Start just thinking about America -- although our love ought to eventually extend beyond the borders of our nation-state. Imagine, sounding like John Lennon, that well-off Americans were raised to feel compassion (karuna) and lovingkindness (metta) in the way Buddhism recommends. As I write these words there are forty million working poor in America and perhaps an equal number of unemployed poor. Aristotle taught that you can’t lack basic necessities and have prospects for virtue and happiness. Buddhists agree, although they conceive of the basic necessities require as consisting of amore meager basket of goods than Aristotle did. Suppose that in addition to being raised to be compassionate and loving kind, we also believe in moderation and quelled our avaricious tastes. Being raised this way,m the poor and the suffering are on my mind, I want to act so as to alleviate suffering to help such souls become happy. What to do? I could work for political reform, progressive taxes going from 60 percent for people in my income bracket. . . . These are kinds of impartial actions, or better impartial strategies for the greater good. The people I am imagining, good Buddhist persons or good consequentialists, don’t feel bad that they have less. They feel good that Fortuna’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna hand in determining the fate of our fellows is weakened and the hands of those whose hearts feel love and compassion are strengthened. ~ Page 200 - ` Oven Flanagan; Chapter “Virtues of Happiness”
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THE BODHISATTVA'S BRAIN
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