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**juyrett** · 07-17-2011, 11:08 PM

Any others?

Was there something uncomfortable for you about the one response you did receive?

[i]Oh ya before I forget to elaborate, the 'guns' are not literal ones (at least in this thread): it can be any manifestation of one's body, speech and mind used to harm or denigrate, via subtle or direct methods, be it online or in real life, on those who think differently from ourselves (though there are those who opine that Buddhist history is not immune from bloodshed, mostly motivated by human politics...but that's another topic). The nuns are a metaphor for 'self righteous' attitudes. Wow, is that statement ever loaded, as was the OP question.

I love this Nambillings/TiltDrool use of the term "denigrate", which means "to deny the importance or validity of". But here in the above citations we see the Buddha himself denigrating misrepresentations of his teachings, and in fact humiliating a monk who misrepresented his teachings. Is the Buddha being "self righteous" here? Is he "manifesting his body, speech, and mind to harm one who thinks differently from himself"?

You have been given examples from the words of the Buddha. Are you unwilling to address them, and if so, why?

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juyrett Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 429 Senior Member	Any others? Was there something uncomfortable for you about the one response you did receive? [i]Oh ya before I forget to elaborate, the 'guns' are not literal ones (at least in this thread): it can be any manifestation of one's body, speech and mind used to harm or denigrate, via subtle or direct methods, be it online or in real life, on those who think differently from ourselves (though there are those who opine that Buddhist history is not immune from bloodshed, mostly motivated by human politics...but that's another topic). The nuns are a metaphor for 'self righteous' attitudes. Wow, is that statement ever loaded, as was the OP question. I love this Nambillings/TiltDrool use of the term "denigrate", which means "to deny the importance or validity of". But here in the above citations we see the Buddha himself denigrating misrepresentations of his teachings, and in fact humiliating a monk who misrepresented his teachings. Is the Buddha being "self righteous" here? Is he "manifesting his body, speech, and mind to harm one who thinks differently from himself"? You have been given examples from the words of the Buddha. Are you unwilling to address them, and if so, why?
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