[Buddha-l] Barbaric not Buddhist

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:23 -0400, SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:

> The events relayed by your Burman acquaintance were beyond barbaric.
> Evil is not too strong a word here. 

Perhaps not, but it is the wrong word to use in a Buddhist context.
Moreover, it is a worse than useless word to use in any context. Let us
stick to Buddhist concepts to describe what goes on in Buddhist
contexts, lest we confuse the children. The actions described in the
message that Joanna forwarded were unskilful and not worthy of
emulation. But calling them evil is quite unnecessary. (I realize that
as an admirer of President Bush you like to talk as he does, but if you
persist in such unseemly vocabularical behavior, we will be forced to
burn incense for you and pray for your speedy recovery from delusion.)

-- 
Richard Hayes