>>17181722The disgust, I have personally found, is in understanding the logistics required to exist.
Imagine, if you will, place yourself in an empty white space.
Now for a single day of your life, consider, what it took to get your clothing that you wear. The factories, the transport, the roads, the slave labor, the food. And that's just clothing. Now imagine the computer you are using. Each part, what it took to make it. So for every spent thing, that it took to get that thing you are using, or the food you are eating, place it in a giant pile. If you live in the west, that pile will get rather large, very quickly. A result of globalism and international trade.
Now, imagine the same thing, if you lived in a cave in a mountain, and ate what you could wild harvest.
That is cause and effect, the weight of karma. That's one mental trick I use to give it some physical representation. That is the aversion I believe they speak of. So much has to suffer, just so you can live comfortably.
The more localized your logistic load is, the less karmic weight is accumulated. It's no wonder Dharma flourished in Tibet for so long when they stayed isolated and basically lived like medieval vagabonds.
The more global Buddhism becomes, I have the more it has become a Buddhism of the donors and sponsors. It cannot be what it once was, because it might upset its source of income. Buddhism at its core, opposes degeneracy like homosexuality, abortion and the like, but now, it's all for it, Buddhism of the donors. Every school of thought is vulnerable to this pattern.
