tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741227658356358863.post4803777795482901031..comments2023-09-21T09:49:28.326-07:00Comments on Fierce Dandelions: The Buddhist Precept of Not Stealing in a Colonized WorldNathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13920234350446745482noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741227658356358863.post-14706754196956187142012-06-30T08:38:09.254-07:002012-06-30T08:38:09.254-07:00DG - your shower comment is a great example. Thank...DG - your shower comment is a great example. Thank you for sharing it. <br /><br />NL - I know Seattle is starting to put together a "food" park. Perhaps we'll do so here in the Twin Cities at some some point in the future. <br /><br />Pigasus - there were a lot of slave breaks and mini rebellions over the decades before the Civil War. However, you are right to point out that many Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920234350446745482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741227658356358863.post-60583256000628082772012-06-29T15:23:51.399-07:002012-06-29T15:23:51.399-07:00It's good to hear what your saying here over a...It's good to hear what your saying here over and over and over again. Why aren't more people saying it? It seems so common. <br /><br />Yet, like Dalai Grandma says, privilege is blinding. My fear is that the bigger the privilege field, the wider the blind spot. <br /><br />I'm reading The Confessions of Nat Turner. Only 70 slaves joined him in his infamous uprising. True, there were Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741227658356358863.post-60904250562992231212012-06-29T11:47:50.194-07:002012-06-29T11:47:50.194-07:00I remember as a kid going out with my parents into...I remember as a kid going out with my parents into farmer's fields to pick buckets of wild berries. No permission was asked. It was a given that during "berry season" people would do this. The berries would be washed and frozen in packets, "put up" in jars for the winter or jams and jellies would be made. This still happens around the smaller towns but nearer the cities &NellaLouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247769132258539996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-741227658356358863.post-76947803830811709242012-06-29T11:44:23.099-07:002012-06-29T11:44:23.099-07:00Thank you, Nathan. Lately I have been more consci...Thank you, Nathan. Lately I have been more conscious that I am stealing every time I take a hot shower or flick on a light switch. I didn't go down in the mines for the coal that powers the electric plant. I don't walk miles for water. <br /><br />Apparently, it takes a crisis to overthrow privilege. I think we are heading there faster than we can know.Jeanne Desyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800258273705288582noreply@blogger.com