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If Budhhism claims that attachment to physical things is bad for people, and that it is bad to have a livelihood based on doing bad things to people, then havin
by yters 15y ago
If Budhhism claims that attachment to physical things is bad for people, and that it is bad to have a livelihood based on doing bad things to people, then having a livelihood based on encouraging physical attachments is contrary to being a good Budhhist.
Of course, I've heard Eastern thought shuns black and white logic, so maybe my argument is wrong because it is logical.
- da_dude4242 15y agoThat's Theravada Buddhism. The Mahayana branch which includes Zen, and Tibetan Buddhism embraces attachment. How are you supposed to cultivate empathy and compassion without attachment? Cultivating "witnessing detachment" is still fundamental to these traditions. It's just considered incomplete without a cultivation of heart.