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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] excerpt from BUDDHIST ECONOMICS by E. F. Schumacher
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:00:54 -0700


excerpt from BUDDHIST ECONOMICS by E. F. Schumacher

Complete text at http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/buddhisteconomics.html


The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least
threefold: to give man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties; to
enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in
a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a
becoming existence. Again, the consequences that flow from this view are
endless. To organise work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless,
boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short
of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with
people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of
attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence. Equally,
to strive for leisure as an alternative to work would be considered a
complete misunderstanding of one of the basic truths of human existence,
namely that work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living
process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the
bliss of leisure.
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  • [Livingontheland] excerpt from BUDDHIST ECONOMICS by E. F. Schumacher, Tradingpost, 03/21/2005

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