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Being a Buddhist without conviction.

Odd. I could click it once and it loaded, (apparently after Ryokan made that post) but now I can't.

When the page did work, however, it linked to an article about a Buddhist Monk in training who had killed some guy and stuffed the body into a suitcase.
 
Ryokan said:
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'Body in suitcase' monk guilty


The body was found in a suitcase outside Basingstoke station
A Buddhist monk has been found guilty of the murder of a hotel worker whose body he dumped in a suitcase.
Nalaka Thero Rathmalane, 36, from Sri Lanka, has been convicted of killing his colleague Siriwimala Thero Patapiliyagoda, 30, who was also Sri Lankan and known throughout the trial as Wimal.

The jury accepted the prosecution's case that the attack at the Audleys Wood Hotel, Basingstoke, was calculated and vicious, not one of defence as suggested.

Rathmalane was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court to a life imprisonment.
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I suppose this is a buhhist with conviction.
 
Thanks for your company, guys here, and the mods also.

It is said that misery loves company, and people love to hear of the miseries of other people, in order if they honest to congratulate themselves that they are exempted from what plague ordinary people, they being the exceptional ones, i.e., privileged ones.

I have just been visited by karma; if you are interested and it is allowed to discuss it here in this forum of JREF on the basis of free thought, free speech, and fair play in online web discussion forums, let me know and we can start a thread, of course with the blessings of the power figures here.

I want to thank all of you guys here and the moderators, administrators, and owners ot his forum for being not authoritarian, read that despotic.

No, I prefer not to discuss this matter in private messages. Transparency is what I always love to engage in when aboard a web discussion forum.

If you are interested and or even just curious, tell me, and I will start a thread, of course again with the blessings of the power figures here, about my karma in another board where also I was an impenitent critic of Buddhism and Buddhists.

A bit depressed now, but still full of exorbitant exuberance, I am that irrepressible.


Yrreg
 
Here is the source for that disclaimer of Buddha.

http://www.insidebuddhism.com/buddha/quotes.asp

Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, Or who said it, Even if I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own common sense.​
If memory serves me correctly, that is the similar text Ryokan referred me to in our first contact.

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About the no-soul and no-self, as I said there is no need for Buddhism to be operable to postulate such negative concepts; Buddhism can work perfectly even with the soul and the self intact, as every ordinary person into religion takes them for granted.

Maybe we have to search for the psychological motivation why Buddhism as portrayed in the ancient writings which only came up some more than 400 years after Buddha's death, and it is the yen to be different.

You start a religion to gather people to follow you, what do you do? For example, in another area of human endeavors, to get people to patronize your products in the market, e.g., another shampoo, what do you tell people about your shampoo to make them at least curious to try it?

You can make your shampoo exactly the same as one already very much sought after in the market, and tell people it is exactly the same except for the name, but you lower the cost.

Or you can tell them it is possessed of different even opposite features which vouch for its being better.


Yrreg
 
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