Lord Buddha thermometer on sale in England!?!?

[dinithdasaja]

meva kara unge amata kella vana one

 

[kalyanamithra]

Woolworths in England is selling garden thermometers based on the image of Lord Buddha. I find it very sacreligious and offensive!

True; what they are doing is not good (esp. if they are doing it with hatred).
Don't you find what done by Mahayana more offensive?

See how Buddhist we are.. we get disturbed when an image of Buddha is abused.. But we are not aware of the fact that whole Doctrine had be made "fruitless" by Mahayana (Why? In Mahayana there's no gain from following the Path; only Buddhas can attain Nibana; others has to cultivate Parami, hoping to become Buddhas..)

We are only ruining ourselves by getting angry. Why? Anger, hatred is a sin. It is a sin irrespective of the persons caste, creed, religion; irrespective of the being being a human, animal, devine, pretha, etc... And who will get the returns (vipaka) of what we do? No one else but us...

True Buddhist should not get angry of things like this... If we cannot tolerate these abuses.. we should do solid action out of sympath, Metta towards those doing them... (e.g. preparing a petition perhaps highlighting the bad returns they would get... however it's up to them to accept it or not... so it's always good to practice how not to get disturbed by these things... in other words to practice Dhamma. It is only Dhamma which can make us resilient to these things...)

If we google a bit we can find thousands of offensive things like this... What will we achieve if we keep on doing this? Nothing, but wasting the time we can used to practice Dhamma...

Theruwan saranai!

 

[1st]

oh! no

how can they earn money like this

here in srilanka they do the same thing bro.

 

[sithmini]

it's not limited to england...it's happening all over the world,,but we should stop this ..

 

[asanka10]

eee minissunge budhi mattama thama...........

Nodokin hattaaa..........