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Buddhism Metaphors

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Tibetan Buddhist analogy of the world is full of thorns and sharp stones (and now broken glass too). One solution is to pave the whole planet is a metaphor that is trying to explain our desire. To truly understand the meaning of the metaphor, one need to examine the reason and main goal of Buddhism and their view on globalization.
Buddhism was establish by Shakyamuni for the sole reason to end human dissatisfaction (dukkha) with life. Shakyamuni explained how to deal with dukkha in four principles, one is that dukkha is the main source of tanha which stands for craving but one could end dukkha through magga, the eightfold path. According Shakyamuni believe there are three kind of people, those who are blind in both eye and because the lake …show more content…

Buddhist praise those who renounced all attachment to material thing but however there is nothing wrong with acquiring wealth as long as one do not abuse or get attached to it. Furthermore wealth could symbolize virtue since they believe in karma and rebirth. And if karma is cause of one’s life and law to govnor the universe one could conclude that someone wealth or misfortune is due to their virtues or bad life style. However Buddhist believe in giving back to the poor a concept knowing as Dana (generosity), according to Buddhist one bad karma is due to their ignorance and for those walking in Buddhist faith are required to lend an assistance to the poor. Dana is an important concept of dealing with globalization and the economy, because it is considered the traditional Buddhist way of redistribution of wealth in contrast to today’s economy which is based on system of capitalism. “The economic process begins with wants, continues with choice, and ends, with satisfaction, all of which are functions of the mind.”(Page 66) So is impossible for economy …show more content…

The values of our economic system according to Buddhism should reflect on how to reduce dukkha. Buddhism explain a better form of economic system rather than the one encourage by globalization. The Buddha emphasized that we all have both unwholesome and unwholesome traits (kusala / akusalamula). The important issue is the practical matter of how to reduce our unwholesome characteristics and develop the more wholesome ones. This process is symbolized by the lotus flower. Although rooted in the mud and muck at the bottom of a pond, the lotus grows upwards to bloom on the surface, thus representing our potential to purify ourselves. Our unwholesome characteristics are usually summarized as the three poisons or three roots of evil: lobha - greed, dosa - anger and moha - delusion. The goal of the Buddhist way of life is to eliminate these roots by transforming them into their positive counterparts: greed into generosity (Dāna), anger into loving-kindness (metta), and delusion into wisdom (prajna) First is the greed, one of the engines that runs the system, the more profit one makes the more they tend to consume; although this pattern encourage by our economy

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