So your argument to not engaging is that my argument isn’t sufficiently updated to the onslaught of news today? RFK passed committee yesterday. Trump planning to use our military for a middle east genocide isn’t something that I should worry about?!? Where were you on 9/11?
What am I doing today? Taking care of my son. Trying to have another child. What do I need to plan for tomorrow? How am I going to vaccinate my child next year? How do I get my wife medical care if she has another unviable pregnancy? How small of a life you must lead that you can just not engage.
My memory is that he had to escape through the Himalayas as a teenager. I don’t think teenagers can be enlightened beings. He failed to keep 2 of the 5 layperson Buddhist vows - a temple has nothing to do with it. From what I understand jhana >> booze, so why choose booze?
Or maybe his brutal exile from Tibet due to Chinese invasion traumatized him in some way. I’m not a fan of rationalizing abusive behavior or hypocrisy. People can gain a lot of skill at something but it doesn’t make them a good person. Elon Musk falls in a similar category IMO.
The author is projecting his Catholic upbringing on the religion. Buddhism is not a singular hierarchical institution in the way Catholicism is. It has evolved and changed as it migrated from India through Tibet, China, Japan, then the USA. Does it have people that take bad actions - yes. Every human institution does.
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I did answer it. You insultingly changed the topic from cults to logic. I stated that the proper analytical framework for risk under uncertainty is probability, not logic. You didn’t understand the point so you insultingly labeled it word salad. The fact remains that you’re spending your time as an apologist for criminals. It must be hard going through life as a stupid person. I wish you the best of luck!
No. It is impossible. He clearly didn’t understand the texts if he later engaged in such terrible behavior. The point of the texts is to teach you the best behavior! Was that cult town in OR beautiful with the cult members patrolling it with machine guns? Was bussing in the homeless and giving them beer in exchange for votes a good idea? Is (apparently) abdicating responsibility to your chosen person a good idea? Is narcing on them at the last minute to save your own skin beautiful? Is taking people’s donations to buy yourself 10 rolls royces beautiful?
LOL, sure, blame Osho’s Michael Cohen. Did he not approve the members running around with machine guns and bussing in homeless people to astro turf the town election? I don’t have to do anything to call out evil cults, but yeah, I have been strongly anti-Trump since 2015.