From Disillusionment to Renunciation | December 27, 2014
For the mind that is ripe and self-reflective, affluence undermines
its own false promises, and many Westerners have come to Buddhism from
disillusionment in the successful pursuit of worldly gratification. That
disillusionment is the first phase of renunciation.
- David Patt, "Who's Zoomin' Who? The Commodification of Buddhism in the American Marketplace" |
A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Via Daily Dharma
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