To Just Be

After years of thinking I have to become I’m going to just try and be for a while.

A Little Buddhist Thought on the Economy

I try not to use Buddhism to make political points.  One can be a Democrat Buddhist or a Republican Buddhist.  I don’t pretend to know what political party the Buddha would belong to.  I’m guessing he’d be an independent.

But I came across a posting on The Middle Way that attempted to explain the economic mess we’re in from a Buddhist perspective.  Here’s an excerpt:

The current global economic crisis is easily understood through a
Buddhist framework. The institutions saw the world as self and other.
They saw, and see, it as something to “win”. They focused on Profits
and the Trickle Down Theory of economics.

Buddhism teaches us about no self, no other. It teaches us that the “I” thing we grasp isn’t real.
It opens us to the world of interconnectedness and interrelatedness.
That’s all well and good but the thing is, we’re here now.

I would distill it even further in Buddhist thought.  We’re in the soup economically because of a lack of mindfulness.  We at the micro level and those at the macro level didn’t pay close attention to economic decisions.  When you make a bad or take out an ill advised loan, it’s eventually going to come home to roost.  Add a little karma to the mix–you reap what you sew–or for every action there is a reaction–we have some problems.

Just something to think about.

Namaste.

Kansas Watch Must Reads for 1/10/08

Another lazy Sunday in blogland.  And the NFL playoffs are on.  But here’s some good stuff.

• The socialist President? Not Obama but Bush. From Nick Sloan’s Official Website: Memo To Some Republicans: The Current President’s A Socialist

• The First Grandma Arrives. From Four Magic Words: It makes perfect sense!

• Obviously not NFL playoff fans. From Voice For Liberty in Wichita: In Wichita, 300 Citizens Rally for Free Markets and Limited Government

• Phill–Don’t let the screen door hit you on you butt on your way out of Kansas. From Kansas.com: Kline takes teaching job at Liberty University

• Yet, we’ll somehow manage.  From Kansas.com: We won’t have Bush’s gaffes to kick around anymore

SD Watch Must Reads for 1/11/09

It’s Sunday, a slow blogging day.  Plus the NFL playoffs.  Playoffs?  Playoffs!

• And still tastes the same too–bad. From Take It Outside: A carp by any other name still fights the same

• Give that man a czar, er, a cigar. From S.D. Politics: The Bizarre Title of Czar in U.S. Politics

• Another industry that is, um, er, sagging. From Cranium Creek: Back to the Push-up Bra

• New NFL position–asshat. From Bob Schwartz Online: Wikipedia Follies And The NFL

The SD Watch Big Dog Continues to Eat First at KELOLAND.com!

Once again, the South Dakota Watch big dog eats at KELOLAND.com.  It is again the overwhelmingly most read local blog for December.  Almost 200,000 page views last month, fellow babiesQ

It isn’t even close.  Come on guys, step it up, will ya?!