I am a Marxist monk: Dalai Lama

Posted online: Saturday , January 19, 2008 at 12:42:11
Updated: Saturday , January 19, 2008 at 12:57:53

... At a gathering at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), he said: “I am a Marxist monk, a Buddhist Marxist. I belong to the Marxist camp, because unlike capitalism, Marxism is more ethical. Marxism, as an ideology, takes care of the welfare of its employees and believes in distribution of wealth among the people of the state.”

Delivering a lecture on Ethics and Business, the Tibetan leader-in-exile said the global economy has created vast economic differences in every country of the world. “In the absence of ethical handling of money, the whole community suffer from a sense of insecurity. Exploitation of workers is maximum in developing countries. There are very high degrees of exploitation in India and China, similar to the exploitation during industrialisation of Western countries a century ago,” he said.

Ethics, the Dalai Lama said, could be categorised as theistic, non-theistic, and secular, and need not be based on religious faith.

“In all the three cases, the definition of ethics remains the same. Both theistic and non-theistic religions advocate love, forgiveness, tolerance and compassion. Secular ethics, on the other hand, is based on the realisation of the same ideas on the basis of common sense and individual experience" ...

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/faith/entries/2008/01/18/after_shunning_youre_just_a_tr.html

Nice

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This is what I get at your link:

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/faith/entries/2008/01/18/after_shunning_youre_just_a_tr.html

After shunning, you’re just a trespasser at church
By Eileen Flynn | Friday, January 18, 2008, 11:00 AM

When the pastor of a church calls 911 and says this:

“Uh yeah, I’ve got somebody trespassing at the Allen Baptist church. I need you to send an officer out immediately.”

… you might think there’s a scary man with a baseball bat demanding whatever’s in the collection basket. Not a little old lady who donates 10 percent of her pension and teaches Sunday school.

But apparently, at Allen Baptist Church in Michigan, little old ladies who question the pastor’s authority get the boot. Or in church parlance, shunned.

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