Fashionable sweatshirts, for example, come from Uzbekistani cotton woven in Iran, sewn in South Korea, and stored in Kentucky: an unstable web of interdependencies that involve not a little suffering, both for the exploited producers and for those pushed out of the production web by cheaper labor.
Our sweatshirts, for example, come from Uzbekistani cotton woven in Iran, sewn in South Korea, and stored in Kentucky—an unstable web of interdependencies that involve not a little suffering both for the producers and for those pushed out of the production web by cheaper labor.
Often we miss the illness in the body because we are distracted by other things. I was reading a while back on a book on the Zen monks Korea, and the monks there seem to be really obsessed with their health. And the same is often true with the monks in Thailand. They've got a lot of time to sit there and look at their present moment.
Glossary Pāli-English. Abhidhamma: (1) In the discourses of the Pāli Canon, this term simply means "higher Dhamma," a systematic attempt to define the Buddha's teachings and understand their interrelationships. (2) A later collection of analytical treatises based on lists of categories drawn from the teachings in the discourses, added to the Canon several centuries after the Buddha's ...
