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Originally posted by Onami
6. Why do people worhip the Buddah?
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Originally posted by Onami
6. Why do people worhip the Buddah?
Buddha means the enlightened one. It is not a person or object of worship.
Originally posted by Onami
1. Regarding Harmlessness: Is it really OK to pick flowers to decorate your shrine when thoses flowers are living beings themselves and home to aphids. Does removing theses living beings from Nature not adverslesy affect the original environment of the flowers? Is this not harmful?
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2. Why is there so much gold and possetions on the shrines if ownership is looked down on?
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3. Trustworthyness. If it is not OK to take without being given who gives the flowers? Who is the giver of the aphids?
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4. If a person stays on retreat at a monastry what does a recommended donation of £25 cover? If everything at the monastry is given by leity what does the £25 pay for?
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5. Sobriety. Why is it OK for monks to drink caffeine and eat cocoa if these substances affect the mind, even if only in a small way?
Originally posted by Onami
6. Why do people worhip the Buddah?
Originally posted by Onami
&. Why were the Boddhidharmas words not written for 500 years? [/quote[
Buddha didn't want any statues made of him, and if a book was important, Buddha could have written it himself.
This is how most religions start. A wise person exists, that tells people the way to inner happiness. They tell people not to worship them or make statues of them. They pass away, and for each new person that comes to learn this path for inner happiness, they tell them the basic life of the wise-person who lives and the teachings they taught.
After a while, the next generation will write down a book about what they heard about the wise person and their teachings. Sometimes, they will even make statues, take ideas from other religions, or turn them into gods when this was not their original intention.
However, even though these holy books are stories that come from an oral tradition where one person tells another relying on memory, and over time changes, it still has some truth and wisdom.
Originally posted by Onami
7. What are the Dalai Lala's connections with the CIA? What are the implications of this?
He is like the pope.
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8. Why did the Buddists in Sri Lanka attack a mosque?
They were over taken by anger. Buddhists are not Buddhas themselves, they are in a learning process.
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9. What can be achieved from self immolisation against a goverment whoses main concern is overpopuation?
The empathy and compassion of the people.
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10. Why does the Dalai Lama reincarnate?
The role of The Dalai Lama is to help others. Apparently, Buddha could have reincarnated too, just to help others. Being enlightened does not mean that you can't choose to come back.