Here's one to test your Buddhist devotion

ajani_mgo

twobitbob, I guess all humans would love to self-preserve themselves - but it might be my life experiences (even though they might not be much), the Dharma, that I would like to keep in the face of death. Perhaps that is what we lose?

Celebrin

many will not accept their fate and die in shame... What we have to loose, we lost at birth. In order to exist we must be impermanent, being impermanent is a blessing, without it we don't exist.

Iawa

Celebrin wrote:

quoting gandalf lol.. bit beardy no?

nobody should be able to wield the power of who lives or dies.. its bemusing that ppl are given that power..

A thought or ideal doesn't breath, but a human does.. the worth of 1 man is kinda unlimited in comparison of our simple thoughts and morals.

I admit he would cause trouble if let out, but in confinement theres really nothing he can do, so really whats the point of killing him off?

Remember what else Gandolf said concerning killing Gullum?

We should not kill him for we know of the evil within him. We do not no what evil shall rise in his stead if we do in fact kill him. We know what happened after Saddam was de-throned, it should give us pause toward the desire to have him destroyed.

pineblossom

Iawa wrote:

Remember what else Gandolf said concerning killing Gullum?

We should not kill him for we know of the evil within him. We do not no what evil shall rise in his stead if we do in fact kill him. We know what happened after Saddam was de-throned, it should give us pause toward the desire to have him destroyed.

Yes - but Gandolf did not seem to find it necessary to err on the side of caution with regards to a whole range of others ....

Celebrin

didnt gandalf say sauron must be destroyed.. lol.. and he also had a battle with saruman concerning him siding