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Buddhist Economics
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Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centeredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming exist
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  • Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centeredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence
  • 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
  • two types of mechanization which must be clearly distinguished: one that enhances a man’s skill and power and one that turns work over to a mechanical slave, leaving man in a position of having to serve the slave.
  • “the craftsman himself can always, if allowed to, draw the delicate distinction between the machine and the tool. The carpet loom is a tool, a contrivance for holding warp threads at a stretch for the pile to be woven round them by the craftsmen’s fingers; but the power loom is a machine, and its significance as a destroyer of culture lies in the f...
  • the Buddhist sees the essence of civilization not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character

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