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I'm tempted to think that Buddha made some rules just to challenge his disciples and see if they actually understood the message. Like the Zen monks who love me
by selfhifive 5y ago
I'm tempted to think that Buddha made some rules just to challenge his disciples and see if they actually understood the message. Like the Zen monks who love messing with their students. Except some knobhead took it seriously and remembered it and his disciples then codified it.
- jrootabega 5y agoI'm confident they were mired in superstition, like all cultures, and since we only focus on what has been tested and distilled over time, there is a tendency to think they were Ancient Wise Ones Without Flaws.
- godDLL 5y agoYou're most probably right, to a degree. If it were a knobhead that codified it, though it would have been some rare kind, where his result is good enough to get the message through, if you stop to think about it for five minutes. That's an improbably good result, for a knobhead. So, maybe no knobheads involved. :)
- selfhifive 5y agoI'm joking. Buddhism involves the ever moving mind so any game that forces you to stop in the moment is against the philosophy. It's the case that when asked what is buddhism one must raise his fist; when asked what is the meaning of life one must say a cherry tree; the response isn't important but that there be no stopping of the mind is of the essence. Like where should I put my mind? Nowhere. That kind of thing.