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...Existence is suffering; 2) suffering springs from desire or craving; 3) the cure for suffering is extinction of desire; 4) to achieve the desired absence of desire there is an Eightfold Path of conduct to follow: right views, right effort, right mindfulness, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood and right concentration. As a definition of rightness, Buddha merely offered "Five Moral Rules" of conduct: 1) Let not one kill any living being; 2) let not one take what is not given to him; 3) let not one speak falsely; 4) let not one drink intoxicating drinks...
Losing the card cost Monk his slender livelihood, but he had a reputation as an oddball and the police were adamant. For six years Monk could not play in New York; though he made a few records and went out on the road now and then, he was all but silenced. "Everybody was saying Thelonious was weird or locked up," Nellie recalls. "But they just talked that way because they'd never see him. He hated to be asked why he wasn't working, and he didn't want to see anybody unless he could buy them a drink...
...bigger roads, or bridge lines that run between two big roads. But the short-haul roads, which perform on a small scale the same functions as the big lines, are the heart of the short-line system. Often they depend on one or a few industries for their livelihood. The dependence is sometimes so great, in fact, that some roads are "captive" lines set up by companies just to serve their plants. U.S. Steel owns twelve short lines, and Bethlehem Steel owns seven...
...suffering is craving-for pleasure, for possessions, for cessation, of pain; 3) the cure for craving is the practice of nonattachment to everything-even to the self; 4) the way to nonattachment is the Eightfold Path-right views, right intentions, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right meditation. The Buddha said nothing about God; no divine judgment, but an inexorable law of cause and effect called dharma determines man's weal...
...sixth of Argentina's sprawling 2,000,000 square miles of land is turned over to cattle for grazing. More than 180,000 ranchers, as well as 788 meatpacking companies and 17% of Argentina's labor force of 6,000,000, depend on cattle for their livelihood. Beef is the nation's second largest foreign exchange earner, after grain, and last year accounted for nearly a quarter of Argentina's $1.2 billion total exports. This year, beef sales abroad will rise 30% to $392 million...