Posted by: BABAL Khate May 19, 2011
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TM,
Absolutely loved your 'then' and 'now's. Very well written. You made me think about the 'then and nows' in my life also. Thanks for the post.
I especially liked this part:
Then: Certain school of Buddhism believes the more money you make the more sins you might have committed. Here you have reason to pay equal respect to good people who have not gone up in the world. I think it's true to some extent because you must have heard in movies or in real-life about quick money and dishonesty. Even for high salaried jobs, you might have to lie or play dirty office politics.
That is so true. For me I think I learned that there is a trade off in life. When I was younger, I wanted it all. Now I realize that there is a price in wanting it all.
And in many ways, I realized that I no longer want it all. For example, as much as being a Minister or having a high post in Nepali government bureacracy seems so attractive because of the prestige it carries, I don't want it today. Yesterday I respected a lot of the people who I knew who had these high posts in Nepal. I too wanted to be a 'thulo maanche' like them. Today, realizing the amount of backbiting, dirty politics, blind arrogance and corruption happens at these high ranks, those same positions don't appear so attractive any more.
In one way, I suppose we could say that it is not the positions that are dirty, it is the people. In another way, I want to say, "Show me one person who despite having these positions remain clean and noble member of society, and I will respect the position." I think Nepal (like most developing nations) is a true example where having a respect worthy position as a leader and being a person with good ethics are...with few exceptions, rare.
So in many ways, coming to America/growing up, has led me to reassess a lot of the people that I had respected when I was young. Today I have different standards of whom I respect and why. And I realize today that based on today's standards, a lot of the people that I respected yesterday in Nepal, I would not respect today.
Absolutely loved your 'then' and 'now's. Very well written. You made me think about the 'then and nows' in my life also. Thanks for the post.
I especially liked this part:
Then: Certain school of Buddhism believes the more money you make the more sins you might have committed. Here you have reason to pay equal respect to good people who have not gone up in the world. I think it's true to some extent because you must have heard in movies or in real-life about quick money and dishonesty. Even for high salaried jobs, you might have to lie or play dirty office politics.
That is so true. For me I think I learned that there is a trade off in life. When I was younger, I wanted it all. Now I realize that there is a price in wanting it all.
And in many ways, I realized that I no longer want it all. For example, as much as being a Minister or having a high post in Nepali government bureacracy seems so attractive because of the prestige it carries, I don't want it today. Yesterday I respected a lot of the people who I knew who had these high posts in Nepal. I too wanted to be a 'thulo maanche' like them. Today, realizing the amount of backbiting, dirty politics, blind arrogance and corruption happens at these high ranks, those same positions don't appear so attractive any more.
In one way, I suppose we could say that it is not the positions that are dirty, it is the people. In another way, I want to say, "Show me one person who despite having these positions remain clean and noble member of society, and I will respect the position." I think Nepal (like most developing nations) is a true example where having a respect worthy position as a leader and being a person with good ethics are...with few exceptions, rare.
So in many ways, coming to America/growing up, has led me to reassess a lot of the people that I had respected when I was young. Today I have different standards of whom I respect and why. And I realize today that based on today's standards, a lot of the people that I respected yesterday in Nepal, I would not respect today.
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