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**MichaelfromSpace** · 11-09-2011, 02:22 AM

Does Buddhist Thought allow for a person to deliberately increase the suffering of another person in the hope that it will teach a lesson that might otherwise never be learned?

In my opinion, this is not allowable from a Theravada perspective, although I understand a confluence of compassion and skillful means might result in this sort of thing according to a Mahayana ethic.

It strikes me as arrogant and unwholesome, full of wrong intention and wrong action, liable to going wrong in myriad ways. Better to lead by example than take such ridiculous risks.

11-09-2011, 02:22 AM	#4
MichaelfromSpace Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	Does Buddhist Thought allow for a person to deliberately increase the suffering of another person in the hope that it will teach a lesson that might otherwise never be learned? In my opinion, this is not allowable from a Theravada perspective, although I understand a confluence of compassion and skillful means might result in this sort of thing according to a Mahayana ethic. It strikes me as arrogant and unwholesome, full of wrong intention and wrong action, liable to going wrong in myriad ways. Better to lead by example than take such ridiculous risks.
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