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Dancing with the Buddha
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ow oba hari puthasri_lion said:
habi dennanm eka tikaka wenaswegana yanna
eth mewage weda nisa kawada hari mewa karana ayatama thami vipaka vidinna sida wenne
ethkota pramada wedie
Whilst not approving what they have done and stating that necessary action should be taken by authorities on this regard.
I would like to leave a little note for all the people in this thread who left replies asking those people to be Hanged, Burnt at the stake etc.
Buddhist philosophy preaches of Containment and acceptance !
Thus my only comment to all those who commented otherwise is, If you are following true Buddhism, you won't utter replies like what you have done
Just for all of your info, I am a Buddhist, but I follow "Mahayana" teachings because I feel that it's the real CORE of Buddhist Philosophy.
I my self felt that "Therawadha" stream are meant for Toddlers when compared with the "Mahayaana" Stream
I would like to leave a little note for all the people in this thread who left replies asking those people to be Hanged, Burnt at the stake etc.
Buddhist philosophy preaches of Containment and acceptance !
Thus my only comment to all those who commented otherwise is, If you are following true Buddhism, you won't utter replies like what you have done
Just for all of your info, I am a Buddhist, but I follow "Mahayana" teachings
because I feel that it's the real CORE of Buddhist Philosophy.I my self felt that "Therawadha" stream are meant for Toddlers when compared with the "Mahayaana" Stream
Dangreen said:Just for all of your info, I am a Buddhist, but I follow "Mahayana" teachings
I my self felt that "Therawadha" stream are meant for Toddlers when compared with the "Mahayaana" Stream
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Dangreen said:Whilst not approving what they have done and stating that necessary action should be taken by authorities on this regard.
I would like to leave a little note for all the people in this thread who left replies asking those people to be Hanged, Burnt at the stake etc.
Buddhist philosophy preaches of Containment and acceptance !
Thus my only comment to all those who commented otherwise is, If you are following true Buddhism, you won't utter replies like what you have done
Just for all of your info, I am a Buddhist, but I follow "Mahayana" teachings
I my self felt that "Therawadha" stream are meant for Toddlers when compared with the "Mahayaana" Stream
Would you care to explain more on as to why would you think that Therawada stream is meant for Toddlers.. and Mahayana has greater depth..
And how do we actually assess the so called "depth" between the two to actually conclude that one has got more depth than the other?
munta hena gahanna ona me karana balu weda walata
mewa karana un labana athme balloma wela ipadewa
mewa karana un labana athme balloma wela ipadewa
sri_lion said:
NOP, not really
Because Race, Religion and cast matters are the three things people divide and fight for.
so, better to let the matter rest here !
I can do up a healthy reply to your question, may be I will PM you ! but going through this forum and THREAD alone tells me that matters of this nature are highly inflammable to people who cannot just do a constructive argument (which are of MANY)
Rather than that, let's just shut the lid on my comment and that matter all together !
Dangreen said:
Its up to you!! It was not my intention to discuss about what's better of Mahayana or Hinayana here, since you mentioned I just asked
Anyway..... with regard to this particular post, the situation that being portrayed here..... in my earliest comment what I've being trying to point out is that..
The closest and the prominent form of Buddhism in the western world is Mahayana, there's no doubt about it... Whatever the differences between the variants of Buddhism, we should ask the question what makes these westerners possibly act the way they have been doing towards Buddhism...
In my opinion, this has got to do a lot with the people they witness whom they call Buddhists themselves, Like for an example lets take majority Chinese... if you ask them they would tell you they are Buddhist or some would say they belong to Japanese Buddhism (which I think they refer to ZEN) and regardless of what Mahayana Buddhism or its close versions teach them, does their lifestyles reflects the depth that Buddhism has???
Look at them..... their whole life is money and money only... they go to temple burn fake money in front of the gods, go to a funeral you'll see carvings of BMW cars, pot full of fake money.... etc.. etc.. and when you ask why.. they say "Oh! in our religion we believe that the person deceased will get these item his/her next life time ", during the new years there's no mentioning about religion all they do is worship a money god with a long beard!!! It's very hard for them to see a religion without money.... NOW you decide what's the connection with Mahanyana or Hinayana with money??
As for us in SL, we go to temple to worship lord Buddha to get blessing NOT to burn money... when someone passed away we call monks to actually bless that person and even our festivals such as new years are very closely bonded with religion.....
So if we really see there's an invincible line drawn a between money and religion in certain cultures....
So in my opinion this is the difference that the western world does not see... if they do.... they would think before they commit these kind of acts.. besides which CHINESE, JAPANESE, KOREAN Buddhism movement is actively engaged in stopping these nonsense? Because they don't really care.... If not, ideally if we look at the Asian Pacific communities that live in the western worlds.. their voice alone is enough to stop/reduce these things...
BUT the case is as such that, they let Bhuddism ruin and we has to shout all the way from South Asia begging them to stop... and I'm afraid this less than 19 million people's voice is NOT enough!!!
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