The DU Lounge

I was listening to sports radio, and the comment was made that (in a baseball series) "Greed is Good"
Sure, it's OK to sweep a series in baseball. That's just doing your job.

But looking at society, what if we toiled without greed, just a fair reward?

My (Buddhist) practice urges us to help others equally as ourselves.

• In fact, there is no helping others without helping ourselves.
(Adults, put on the oxygen mask first!)
• And there is no helping oneself without helping others.
(Some still don't understand that ... like the rugged individualist prepper who breaks an arm when the local clinic is bombed out)

That beautiful symmetry is what makes for a better world. In fact, it's all that's needed to get there, and it seems in desperately short supply right now.

But it starts with me and you.
Together

I first make my wishes for others, and then for whatever I might need or want.
You see, it's no a zero-sum game.
Good wishes, intentions and acts multiply, whereas manipulators would have you think that life is a "me or you" proposition.
THAT is the big lie.

And I don't buy it.
Cheers and the very best to you.