Joe, Perhaps, but the belief in taking other people's property and redistributing it without their consent is an even more egregious attachment...
Edgar On Dec 11, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Joe wrote: > Chris, > > The question itself speaks volumes. > >> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the >> mind's freedom? > > Well done! It is certainly on-topic, and is eloquent. > > I'm impressed by planning and decision-making that's guided by consideration > for and appreciation of others' future stewardship. I think of the "Seven > Generations" planning of actions taken by certain Native American tribal > councils, the making of decisions with a concern and consideration for how > planned actions, if executed, might effect even the seventh following > generation of people and culture after the elders' actions. > > Such planning probably could not have taken into account the arrival of > Europeans in America, and I don't know if the "Seven Generations" principle > remains in play on Native Reservations to this day. > > --Joe > > -> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote: >> >> Can one's belief in personal ownership be an attachment, a hindrance to the >> mind's freedom? >> >> It looks to me like it is, but perhaps we shouldn't argue politics and tax >> policy here? >> >> Rather than share my partisan arguments, let me simply state that >> reasonable people do disagree about these issues. Personally I am grateful >> to have been born into a society that believes in vaccination public >> schools voting research moon missions and the like. the society finds it >> sensible to pay me for tasks which are enjoyable and allow me to learn and >> to master myself, and that seems fine. I didn't create the society nor >> more than a bit of its wealth, so I don't feel like much more than a >> temporary steward of the assets I control. >> >> I do know not everyone shares such a perspective, and there's no profit in >> arguing. I speak to offer the lurkers the data that the idea of capitalism >> without a fixed idea of a personal self can take many forms. >> >> Yours in praeteritio, > > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: zen_forum-dig...@yahoogroups.com zen_forum-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: zen_forum-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/