Greetings again, I'd like to bring into this conversation a personal dilemma. What do you do when a person, people, or a country you care about seem to be behaving badly? What do you do?
My mother, who is 84, is a coal-miner's daughter, and was brought up in Detroit. She and my stepfather are now reasonably comfortable and retired in Florida. They recently came into a little money. My mother insisted on getting herself a Cadillac (gas guzzler). I am beside myself because I think that she is clueless. I can see this purchase as adding to our environmental problems, and contributing to George Bush, Bin Laden and the endless killing of innocent people in the MiddleEast. She sees this as a little bit of happiness. I think if everybody is clueless we are doomed. So what do you do when a person, people, or a country you care about seem to be behaving badly? What do you do when reason doesn't seem to be working. I think a Buddhist might say to act responsibly yourself, and chop wood & carry water. But I'm not a Buddhist, so I could be wrong. And of course there are the actions I am blindly performing myself that also add to the problems. I mentioned the MIddleEast and the environment, but there are other ways of defining the problem. And when I start looking at them, the problems change and grow exponentially. HELP! BTW, to care about a person, people or a country is attachment. I bring up this particular situation because it offers a way to see many different perspectives. Can it be untangled. Marsha moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
