What if it's both? What happens to abusers?
I will say one thing: the deadened priests and false sadhus who sell god and extort misbegotten alms are reborn as begging monkeys and dogs to infest the temple grounds.
don't eat suffering.
this is not a legalistic religion unless you're taking full vinaya.
Actually, dietary guidelines in Buddhism are very important, but not so much in terms of what you put in your mouth. That is very simple: don't eat suffering. A lot follows from that very simple premise...
Ordinarily I wouldn't stoop to such backwards behavior but as this is a religious forums, I will illustrate with, of all things, an example from my religion and hopefully roll high against instant credibility death.
Anyway...
The epic of greater India, the Mahabharata, is a story about an...
It's not that emotions are impractical. It's that adherence to ideals like "I should be loved, not feared!" as a leader is a handicap. Good leaders are pragmatic; the job is what's important and it takes everyone beyond themselves, whether the mission is invoked with fear, love or something else...
This, more or less.
I was trying to point at this with my first post in the thread:
We're not looking at two religions here but one meta-religion containing within it many, many religions with tremendous diversity in their views and practices, such that many schools of Buddhism share far...
What I'm saying is that your "Western" is itself a "Western" construct. It has no substantive existence. "West" and "East" do not exist as such categories except for colonial convenience, dividing and conquering states of mind.
Yes, but again here we have a false dichotomy between...
To me this isn't any more significant than saying something like "do you believe that Kashmir & Nepal can ever truly have the same entire worldviews?"
What am I to make of that? :help:
Need we be children to drink from this silent well?
Apparently yes, but this, ipso facto, is just not true...