That is not completely true (the not improving of samsara. There are a few teachings in the sutras about societies, about law and morality, about rulers and kings. It is said in the sutras that a Buddha cannot appear in a world if the society is corrupt, if wrong views are the norm, (i.e. that there is no karma, no result of karma, no higher and lower planes of existence, no spiritual path, and no result of the path, i.e. no arhats).Giovanni wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 10:51 am Everytime we walk, eat and breath we harm other beings. This can’t be avoided in Samsara. All we can do is decide to cause least harm. Which may not be the obvious.
The purpose of Dharma is not to improve Samsara, but to not experience it by being born in the realms again.
In Buddhism there is a responsibility towards the society, although such teachings may be scattered in the sutras, and difficult to find.
"An Anguttara Nikaya passage states this principle in simple and direct terms. If the king is righteous, his ministers will be righteous, the country will be righteous and the natural world will be a friend rather than an enemy. The opposite, of course, is also true and is placed first in the sutta:
'At such time, monks, as rulers are unrighteous (adhammika), their ministers are unrighteous, brahmans and householders are also unrighteous...' [AN II 74]"
Violence and Disruption in Society
A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts
by Elizabeth J. Harris
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/aut ... el392.html
Buddhism and Social Action
An Exploration
by Ken Jones
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/aut ... el285.html