Buddhist monk leaves mess
Posted on 11/28/2010 4:43:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Like I said, you become your own god.
Burma. The military junta regards Buddhism as the state religion and persecutes both Christians and Muslims.
How about the Boxer Rebellion? Okay, the Boxers were mixed Buddhist/Taoist, but still. We Orthodox Christian commemorate the New Martyrs of China, and it was Buddhists (and Taoists), not Muslims or Communists who sent them to their glory.
Of course this has nothing to do with Yi-hiuan's dictum, which is about the need to detach one-self from the passions.
Uh, you are seeing it through the Christian lens...
No God does not = “You become your own God”
while some may have other Gods than Jesus Christ or the Jewish Yaweh, ...they may have Islamic Gods or Hindu Gods or Materialism or Drugs as their God...It is also possible to have No God, yet not be “your own God.”
I would agree with that. The percentage of Buddhists in western societies is still very small. There is also the factor that most media attention on Buddhism is what New Age “gurus” who have books and programs to sell say about it. Who else would the MSM interview but other leftists?
Give me a break! The military junta in Burma is no more Buddhist than Hitler was a Catholic. And the Boxer Rebellion was the Chinese finally blowing their cork over Britain’s tyrannical and selfish rule.
When you place yourself and your struggles at the center of your life, you become your own god. Little g.
And the westernized-American- California Buddhism fit in so well with the Beatles, “Peace and love”, moral relativism and vegetarianisim and environmentalism....
I can hear Al Gore and Hillary now....”OHHHHHH..mmmm”...”OOOOOOmmmmmm” ( as they meditate on their bank account ledgers.ha)
In many cases, the converts understand little of the religion they are converting to; conversion is a political statement, not a religious one. This is true of American blacks who convert to Islam, as well. They think they are embracing a pacifist religion of their African ancestors. But, while Islam might be big in Africa, that is in Northern Africa, where the people are not black, but are Caucasian. Furthermore, Islam is not pacifistic.
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Agreed. But if I listen to the fruity nasal tones of my Buddhist neighbors one more time.....
Yes, your statement is true....but there are some people who put a “greater consciousness” or their version of “nothingness” at the center of their life, that is what guides them...It is not them, not their ego, and not any God we would , or they would attribute.
When you blame anybody but yourself for your problems (ie suffering) you become a liberal. Big L.
True... but that's true of most leftist elitists no matter their purported religion happens to be.
True... but that’s true of most leftist elitists no matter their purported religion happens to be.
again: Fruity nasal tones...
It takes real work to attain nothingness and then what are you left with? Bupkis, that's what.
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And I remind you, I was pointing to murders and wars "in the name of Buddhism" not murders or wars perpetrated by Buddhists whose piety you would approve. Unlike Hitler, who murdered in the name of the Aryan Race, not of his nominal religion, the Burmese junta murders in the name of their nominal religion.
Well, you failed miserably on both counts. Neither the Boxer Rebellion nor the military junta in Burma are examples of war or murder in the name of Buddhism.
Were not the Samurai Shintoists?
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Yes, peace being imposed only by God, not Christ.
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