Right View
Right Intention
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration
- The EightFold path - Buddha
Seth Godin linked to the Global Rich List in a blog entry entitled “Where did it all go?” today.
| I’m the 44,274,467 richest person on earth! |
I am one of the 50 million richest people in the world. It doesn’t seem like a big number, until you realize that 50 million / 6+ billion puts me in the top 0.75%. That is just crazy.
And of course, the Global Rich List has some provacative questions:
All you have to do is make a choice.
$8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market.
$30 could buy you an ER DVD Boxset OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti.
$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
$2400 could buy you a second generation High Definition TV OR schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
As the Dalai Lama asks in “How to Practice” (paraphrased from memory):
Imagine yourself standing. In front of you to the right you see your most ignorant and selfish “self”. To your left you see all of the needy and downcast people in the world. You are given the choice to help one of the parties. Choose.
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