[Buddha-l] Cheering wildly

[Stefan Detrez]

2006/9/21, Elihu Smith <elihusmith at yahoo.com>:
>
> Though there may be some who
> "cheered wildly as we listened to the speeches by
> Ahmadinejad and Chavez in the UN," the hate in these
> speeches, and the violence encouraged by them, is not
> in line with the teachings of the Buddha or the
> precepts, even if it is rationalized by such political
> slogans such as "We love it when people speak truth to
> power."


In the form of upaya their speeches have certainly had their satori-effect
on those who are dosing off into avidya. I think that's pretty Buddhist.

Stefan
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