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**RilmAlime67** · 05-09-2011, 01:27 AM

It is quite possible for one to be engaged in peaceful problem solving, and to be a buddhist [...]

Of course fojiao2

[...] without this constituting directly "dharma used to address peaceful problem solving".

Yes, that is right. And it is the point I tried to underline. Sometimes we can feel so well telling ourselves "Buddhists" that we can become a little bit arrogant believing that just "Buddhists" are about solving problems or the Dhamma "tools" the only best fitting ones to solve social problems.

There are many other means to treat serious social problems. In my personal experience Participatory Systems or means to make people participate toward a problem is not about "Buddhism" at all, it's about the gathering of experience and the aim of democratic participation in a collective way, so to bring tangible solutions to problems of any sort like environmental, violence against women, education, diversity, etc., without being deluded by idealisms about human beings or "ideal societies" based in utopian entanglements.

05-09-2011, 01:27 AM	#38
RilmAlime67 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 470 Senior Member	It is quite possible for one to be engaged in peaceful problem solving, and to be a buddhist [...] Of course fojiao2 [...] without this constituting directly "dharma used to address peaceful problem solving". Yes, that is right. And it is the point I tried to underline. Sometimes we can feel so well telling ourselves "Buddhists" that we can become a little bit arrogant believing that just "Buddhists" are about solving problems or the Dhamma "tools" the only best fitting ones to solve social problems. There are many other means to treat serious social problems. In my personal experience Participatory Systems or means to make people participate toward a problem is not about "Buddhism" at all, it's about the gathering of experience and the aim of democratic participation in a collective way, so to bring tangible solutions to problems of any sort like environmental, violence against women, education, diversity, etc., without being deluded by idealisms about human beings or "ideal societies" based in utopian entanglements.
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