http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/03/15/3mt-the-dark-side-and-righteous-anger/ Words about God and life for the Attention Deficit generation Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/03/15/3mt-the-dark-side-and-righteous-anger/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 yoda Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:45:10 +0000 http://3minutetheologian.org.uk/blog/2008/03/15/3mt-the-dark-side-and-righteous-anger/#comment-1281 There is another option in buddhism and that is the Bodhisatta or Bodhisatva Way, in that way Luke can kill the emperor, save his friends and stop an evil system with the complete knowledge that he is going to reap that evil eventually (harming the sentient being the emperor is) knowing that eventually he is going to suffer but he is not afraid of that suffering since he has taken the Bodhisatta Vow and knows that he is "protected" by the Dhamma, the Buddha teaches that a persons that takes that Holly Vow of the Bodhisattas is going to be protected by the dhamma, even if the reaping of that negative actions happens in another life. For me Jesus was a great Bodhisatta, he was dying, he has been tortured in his body but his mind kept pristine. That is how the Dhamma protects, the Dhamma (if you are a Buddhist) is not the religion of Gautama the Shakya is a universal set of conduct internal and external that Gautama discovered and works even if you don't know about Gautama the wise of the Shakyas. There is another option in buddhism and that is the Bodhisatta or Bodhisatva Way, in that way Luke can kill the emperor, save his friends and stop an evil system with the complete knowledge that he is going to reap that evil eventually (harming the sentient being the emperor is) knowing that eventually he is going to suffer but he is not afraid of that suffering since he has taken the Bodhisatta Vow and knows that he is “protected” by the Dhamma, the Buddha teaches that a persons that takes that Holly Vow of the Bodhisattas is going to be protected by the dhamma, even if the reaping of that negative actions happens in another life. For me Jesus was a great Bodhisatta, he was dying, he has been tortured in his body but his mind kept pristine. That is how the Dhamma protects, the Dhamma (if you are a Buddhist) is not the religion of Gautama the Shakya is a universal set of conduct internal and external that Gautama discovered and works even if you don’t know about Gautama the wise of the Shakyas.

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