Comments: The Dalai Lama on Paris: "God would say, solve it yourself because you created it in the first place."
God also allowed for the creation of smokeless powder, large calibers, rifled barrels and the means of using them. One would have to assume he thought they should be employed in solving one's problems.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at November 18, 2015 4:28 AM
To be fair, the Gulag Archipelago had a systematic approach to foster oneness and harmony.
Posted by Joan of Argghh! at November 18, 2015 6:23 AM
I have never figured out why anyone pays attention to this guy. Someone enlighten me.
Posted by BillH at November 18, 2015 6:58 AM
BillH, consider the DL as a paragon of decency, someone to emulate at least after the necessary killing in self-defense is done.
Posted by Stug Guts at November 18, 2015 7:54 AM
Let me get this straight.
You're a Buddhist, so you think the idea of God is stupid and wrong, prayer is utterly meaningless, reality is an illusion and a lie, and that the only sin is to cling to a falsehood rather than let go and become one with the universe.
And you're lecturing me on what God does and does not do?
Posted by Christopher Taylor at November 18, 2015 11:44 AM
He says that he prays. He's a buddhist. Exactly who or what does he pray to??
Posted by Grizzly at November 18, 2015 4:57 PM
Tibetan Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The aim of preliminary practices (ngdro) is to start the student on the correct path for such higher teachings.[25] Just as Sutrayﾄ］a preceded Vajrayﾄ］a historically in India, so sutra practices constitute those that are preliminary to tantric ones. Preliminary practices include all Sutrayﾄ］a activities that yield merit like hearing teachings, prostrations, offerings, prayers and acts of kindness and compassion, but chief among the preliminary practices are realizations through meditation on the three principle stages of the path: renunciation, the altruistic bodhicitta wish to attain enlightenment and the wisdom realizing emptiness. For a person without the basis of these three in particular to practice Vajrayﾄ］a can be like a small child trying to ride an unbroken horse.[26]
Posted by Van der Leun at November 18, 2015 5:13 PM
I can't imagine the vapid mind that can endure such tragedy as anything religion.
Delusion has no limits so it seems.
Posted by ghostsniper at November 18, 2015 6:21 PM
A long time ago someone opined, 'The religious person must only explain the existence of, and justify, the presence of evil; the non-religious must explain the existence of everything.'
Irrationality is not necessarily stupid or unreal.
Think of the love a mother has for her mentally or physically crippled infant. Think of the love a toddler has for its doll or dog.
Posted by Stug Guts at November 18, 2015 10:55 PM
"He says that he prays. He's a buddhist. Exactly who or what does he pray to??"
He prays to a big carved stone image of a fat man sitting out in a jungle. That's as good as hollering Allahu Akabar before blowing yourself up. The only purported difference is 72 virgins.
Posted by Vermont Woodchuck at November 19, 2015 5:09 AM
Thanks for all the enlightenment. Bring on the preliminary practices (ngdro) so I can Sutrayﾄ］ on down to Vajrayﾄ］.
Posted by BillH at November 19, 2015 7:52 AM