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**vNQmO2BF** · 09-07-2011, 05:00 AM

I was recently listening to a talk, and one of the things said (in a nutshell) was that in Buddhism, there is no such thing as "evil", but rather delusion/stupidity...

and even then there are no inherently stupid people, but only that there are some people who do stupid things. Yes. People perform unwholesome actions because a deluded mind, a lack of Right View.

How does this explain things which are labeled evil such as serial killing or acts of terrorism? Most of them are under a deep delusion of mind, deep ignorance and have been under an indescribable suffering not being aware of it and there is always the possibility to reverse that state of mind.

09-07-2011, 05:00 AM	#3
vNQmO2BF Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	I was recently listening to a talk, and one of the things said (in a nutshell) was that in Buddhism, there is no such thing as "evil", but rather delusion/stupidity... and even then there are no inherently stupid people, but only that there are some people who do stupid things. Yes. People perform unwholesome actions because a deluded mind, a lack of Right View. How does this explain things which are labeled evil such as serial killing or acts of terrorism? Most of them are under a deep delusion of mind, deep ignorance and have been under an indescribable suffering not being aware of it and there is always the possibility to reverse that state of mind.
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