no1tovote4
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One doesn't have to give up everything to be a Buddhist.Said1 said:So people should not worry and be happy in the west, adopting Buhddist/Gia (sp) philosophies, have fun and not work? How low are your living standards? Just how much are you willing to give up, in exchange for meditation and well being?????????
This is more a cultural thing. Like all those articles about the "quality of life" that are always skewed toward a European opinion on it. They take the amount of vacation and time doing nothing and equate that to quality of life, along with the question about how satisfied that they are, but in the US we are not largely satisfied with things to remain static.
People in the US consistently work to improve their situation in regards to new situations. Each time one reaches a goal, in the US they set a new goal, thus remaining "unsatisfied" while they are still happy with the direction they have taken or even where they currently are. Thus when asked about their level of satisfaction in the US you are more likely to get a negative answer, not because they don't like their life but because they have already set new goals that they are working towards and have yet to reach them. Satisfaction is a relative term.