[Buddha-l] Nalanda's library destruction

[Joy Vriens]

Richard:

"Rather, the bodhisattva says, in effect, "rather than letting you go to 
hell for aeons as a consequence of doing something really wicked, I'll 
kill you, give you a get out of hell free card, and I'll go to hell for 
killing you. But my stay in hell will be shorter than yours would have 
been, because I have lots of merit, whereas you're a vicious miscreant."

Yes, the only thing the bodhisattva has to go by for living his 
righteousness to the full is his belief. In karma, in reincarnation, a 
metaphysical (six penitentiary realms) retribution system, in his 
ability to decide who is wicked (an obstacle to "the Dharma") and who 
isn't it, which is something habitually only suitable for a god or God. 
May we conclude that a bodhisattva, with Karma on his side, is a 
righteous sun of a BLEEP?

Without his belief, he'll probably would have thought by himself, "Well, 
I only have one life which is very precious to me, I have my wife and 
children to think of, we have laws in this country to prevent wicked men 
from misbehaving and punishing them if they do, I am not God, who am I 
to judge, and who needs merit if he lives a good life?"

I am not sure he would make a good bodhisattva, or buddhist, but I would 
go and have a drink with him, whereas I would be very weary of that 
creepy bodhisattva.

Joy