[Buddha-l] Religious violence, Buddhist violence

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 21:15 +0100, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:

> Come on, Richard. The Japanese sect was poisoning innocent people in
> order to blackmail Japanese society and the Buddha spent 40 years
> wandering and explaining everyone who would listen how to get free
> from desire and worldly troubles. After explaining this to your
> students you ask them to find out for themselves if the Japanese
> Aumcult acted according to the words of the Buddha. They must find
> this an impossible task!

Some of my brighter students can figure it out. The rest just continue
trying to put poison gas into the Albuquerque subway system.
Fortunately, Albuquerque does not have a subway system, so their efforts
to make the world safe from terrorism by killing everyone in sight do
not have what William James would call "cash value."