--- Den sön 2009-11-01 skrev ardavarz <ardavarz@...>:

<Buddhism is not concern with the casts, social contradictions etc. but with the elimination of suffering which is the same for all beings. This is a revolution in the psyche, not in society (society just doesn't matter).>

I disagree.

I think this a very serious over-simplification, that you are presenting Quietism rather than Buddhism.

The Dhamma is concerned _primarily_ with personal liberation, but it is by no means indifferent to social matters. This is clear from the advice given by the Buddha in the suttas, e. g. the beginning of the Mahaaparinibbaanasutta, or the whole of the Sigaalovaadasutta

Buddhist training begins with siila, and siila very much includes social affairs.

Of course, there is always a difference between the ideal and the possible; that's why I think the utopian society described in the Cakkavatti story is meant as a social ideal to be strived for, not as something that has actually existed.

Gunnar



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