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Well I agree but would add: If you’re stuck in the short game poverty trap, it’s harder to even realize what your (underlying) big ticket items are. Or to put
by woodpanel 8y ago
Well I agree but would add:
If you’re stuck in the short game poverty trap, it’s harder to even realize what your (underlying) big ticket items are.
Or to put it from another perspective: you have to be able to afford to minimalize. In the West, there are no Buddhist temples in the ghettos.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> In the West, there are no Buddhist temples in the ghettos. Like the boiling frog, that's an attractive illustration that is literally untrue.
- woodpanel 8y agoThat was a metaphor… New Age Zen Buddhists are usually not poor, culturally not related to Asia at all and often don't realize how their practice is a refurbishment of puritan cultural origins.