[Buddha-l] Refuge in what?

[Weng-Fai Wong]

> 
> Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> > Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, declared there was no such thing as
> a
> > Hindu or a Moslem. He discovered that trying to be neither made him a
> third
> > entity, which came to be called Sikh. Within five generations Sikhs had
> to
> > carry knives (and make that a religious obligation for all males) to
> protect
> > themselves from Muslims.
> >
> > Universals are never as universal as proponents believe. Buddhists (but
> not
> > Hindus, Muslims, et al.) say that.

Happens all the time... Bahai for example... some guy says that he is of all
religion and speaks for the universal goodness in them... only to find out
later he is revered as the founder of a particular sect or religion - that's
probably being ostracized by the established ones. Humans just love
boundaries and classifications.

On refuges... see the variants:

http://www.101zenstories.org/refuge-vow/

W.F. Wong