tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post5086657977148428335..comments2024-03-28T14:11:24.265-07:00Comments on dhamma musings: Is A Sheep As Good As A Lamb?Shravasti Dhammikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06246408068143301108noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-46682783981485483472016-03-12T22:32:18.543-08:002016-03-12T22:32:18.543-08:00善哉!善哉!��善哉!善哉!��Jayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16566585837255870809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-54938906727313129282009-05-20T18:34:03.171-07:002009-05-20T18:34:03.171-07:00One might easily fall into the trap of treating Bu...One might easily fall into the trap of treating Buddhist scriptures the way Christians treat theirs. The Bible is supposed to be divinely inspired but the Buddhist suttas/sutras are recorded by humans only, and the Buddha was never "God". We have heard of monks using the thick tomes of scriptures as very convenient door-stops. But before we start tossing the scriptures around, we had better understand the contents first... :)Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473139174740412105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-23384291433615726082009-05-13T23:44:00.000-07:002009-05-13T23:44:00.000-07:00I'd never heard this particular story before but t...I'd never heard this particular story before but the important point is that the Buddha, and before him the Bodhisatta, condemned animal sacrifices, something that, to my knowledge, neither Jesus nor any other major religious figure, did. <br /><br />It's amusing, in its way, that Jesus is supposed to have picked up a little lamb, yet to drive a herd of swine over a cliff to their death. Maybe Jesus' compassion was species specific? <br /><br />With metta,<br />VisakhaKen and Visakhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16713910044241151429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-66880664089918239672009-05-13T17:34:00.000-07:002009-05-13T17:34:00.000-07:00Reposted due to a previous text formatting error:
...Reposted due to a previous text formatting error:<br /><br /><I>"Less laudable is the fact that many traditional Buddhists know so little of their own sacred scriptures that they actually think something written by an Englishmen in just 130 years ago is from those sacred scriptures."</I>Hmm, I find this a very peculiar statement. If I had to check the authenticity of everything I read, then I'd have to begin with your post, and verify that you hadn't made this whole thing up! ;)<br /><br />I mean, how do you yourself know for sure that Sir Edwin Arnold composed the story ... how could you ever verify this as irrefutable fact? After all, even his nearest and dearest wouldn't necessarily know for sure that he hadn't covertly plagiarised the whole thing!<br /><br />My point is, it does not seem "less laudable" at all that Buddhists may be oblivious to such details ... rather, it is inevitable and to be expected.<br /><br />OK then,<br />All The Best!bluemoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03527427735436126862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-21472782537992583792009-05-13T17:31:00.000-07:002009-05-13T17:31:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.bluemoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03527427735436126862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-75892259605809127102009-05-13T10:00:00.000-07:002009-05-13T10:00:00.000-07:00Thank you for this. I haven't heard this story mys...Thank you for this. I haven't heard this story myself, but on a similar note, I've often found recently that I can't find Pali references to stories that I heard and took as the truth when I was younger. When we're children, we don't discern between Canon stories and latter day parables. I suppose the moral we can take from this is, "Be careful what you teach your children!"Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17503422338070678937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1012277645322483593.post-20363133536305189362009-05-13T03:11:00.000-07:002009-05-13T03:11:00.000-07:00Bhante, what would be in your opinion the causes o...Bhante, what would be in your opinion the causes of the lack of knowledge about scriptures in the Buddhist countries and what could be done about that? Is the monastic Sangha not quite doing its job of spreading and keeping the Dhamma with accuracy?Vasile Andreicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00986438406818817591noreply@blogger.com