don't kill that mosquito! buddhist going nutz!!

[Forvendet]

they call that "compassion". don't kill the mosquito just shoo it away. dumber than dumb!:*:

Maybe they'll compassionate to you, according the doctrine (I call nonsenese) about if you kill a mosquito, you'll become a mosquito in your next life. I wonder what'll happen to in your life next if you kill mosquito, ant and cockroach. Multiple corners cross-breed for a new pedigree insect in the next generation?

I knew someone who would object vehemently if someone killed an ant in front of her.
At the same time, she would not think twice about bad-mouthing her colleagues, talking behind their backs and complaining about petty things to the superiors.

I haven't replied to your postings for quite some time after our last dispute. But adhering to my principle of addressing the message and not the messenger, I'd have to agree with you on this, bingo!

 

[Hahahaman]

even if other harmful beings such as mosquitoes, bedbugs, lices etc? won't sparing them bring harm or even death to human who should be the priority beneficiary of compassion? then were once the bubonic plague spreading rats which caused many deaths. if such vermins were eradicated, perhap that deadly catastrophe could have been avoided.

buddhist practitioners should be aware about WISDOM IN COMPASSION and not blind dummy compassion which i notice could be an ignorant attachment and hindrance.

Compassion is a political word.

 

[leetahbar]

buddhism is a very very simple religion but laypeople or even the sangha has complicated it with excessive formality that the essence of buddhism is lost. the religion is meant to free the believer and enhance him to live happily and not bonded by foolish man-made rules. that's no more buddhism. that's attachment and ignorance which are the very afflictions that buddhists should overcome.

 

[leetahbar]

Commonsense says all religions are nonsense. I give you a statue and tell you to pray to it, commonsense or nonsense? I give you a book and tell you to pray on it, commonsense or nonsense?

wrong concept. buddhism doesn't worship a statue. the statue is put there to help practitioner to concentrate their mindfulness but not worshipping it. most buddhists are not blessed with a sharp mind. instead they have scattered minds and hence a statue to help them to focus. again, many just got carried away by ignorance and treat it as an object of worship.

buddha couldn't save himself from dying so how could he help u? buddha tried to transfer his teachings or dharma so that buddhists could free themselves and learn to live happiy.

that's buddhism and that's how simple it is.

 

[Confuseous]

I knew someone who would object vehemently if someone killed an ant in front of her.
At the same time, she would not think twice about bad-mouthing her colleagues, talking behind their backs and complaining about petty things to the superiors.

In India, this group called the Jains actually fan the path in front of them, in case they step on some live things. I am not kidding.

 

[leetahbar]

In India, this group called the Jains actually fan the path in front of them, in case they step on some live things. I am not kidding.

anything that's troublesome and make more bo liao works is definite NOT buddhism.

 

[Forvendet]

wrong concept. buddhism doesn't worship a statue. the statue is put there to help practitioner to concentrate their mindfulness but not worshipping it. most buddhists are not blessed with a sharp mind. instead they have scattered minds and hence a statue to help them to focus. again, many just got carried away by ignorance and treat it as an object of worship.

buddha couldn't save himself from dying so how could he help u? buddha tried to transfer his teachings or dharma so that buddhists could free themselves and learn to live happiy.

that's buddhism and that's how simple it is.

Then why must it be in gold, the more gold the more glory? Why burn incense in front of it? Why kill people for vandalising it? Just get another statue will do, isn't it? Buddhism supposedly teach no killing, no even animals. But Buddhists are killing people over statues. Why spend so much money and gold on statutes if it's just a "focus"?

Why Buddhists professing to be practising pride themselves on visiting grandiose temples as shrines? Are they paying tribute to the sculptors, architects, engineers and builders? Same goes for Christianity and other religions.

 

[myo539]

Tell them not to eat and breath. When ever they breath pollute the earth with carbon.

Wrong! The carbon dioxide that you breathe out is taken in by the plants. The oxygen the plants transpire is taken in by people and animals. This is basic primary school science - did you make it pass that.

Don't kill the mosquitoes because in the law of nature, they are food for other creatures such as lizards and other insects.

 

[fukyuman]

Buddhists are just full of shits. They buy captive birds and set them free. But these birds were caged so they can't fly far so vendors catch them again and the neighbourhood cat catches the rest. Others buy seafood and arrange for their freedom at Changi instead of building artificial reefs for fishes to hide in. The fish got no where to go, so now Ubin and Changi best fishing spot. They eat veggie only, except don't know how to mix and match for best nutrition, plently of walking dead with no blood to nourish brains and full of brittle bones. But then all religions teaches you to be stupid.

 

[Cruxx]

Buddhists are just full of shits. They buy captive birds and set them free. But these birds were caged so they can't fly far so vendors catch them again and the neighbourhood cat catches the rest. Others buy seafood and arrange for their freedom at Changi instead of building artificial reefs for fishes to hide in. The fish got no where to go, so now Ubin and Changi best fishing spot. They eat veggie only, except don't know how to mix and match for best nutrition, plently of walking dead with no blood to nourish brains and full of brittle bones. But then all religions teaches you to be stupid.

Actually, plants are living organisms too. Brain dead buddhists think only things that move are alive

 

[leetahbar]

Then why must it be in gold, the more gold the more glory? Why burn incense in front of it? Why kill people for vandalising it? Just get another statue will do, isn't it? Buddhism supposedly teach no killing, no even animals. But Buddhists are killing people over statues. Why spend so much money and gold on statutes if it's just a "focus"?

Why Buddhists professing to be practising pride themselves on visiting grandiose temples as shrines? Are they paying tribute to the sculptors, architects, engineers and builders? Same goes for Christianity and other religions.

this is a very good question. why rich pastors claim that their wealth is from god? the answer the same. the problem is in the practitioners but not the religion. the originality and goodness of the religion was modified to suit personal desire. that's how misunderstanding of the religion arises.

 

[leetahbar]

Buddhists are just full of shits. They buy captive birds and set them free. But these birds were caged so they can't fly far so vendors catch them again and the neighbourhood cat catches the rest. Others buy seafood and arrange for their freedom at Changi instead of building artificial reefs for fishes to hide in. The fish got no where to go, so now Ubin and Changi best fishing spot. They eat veggie only, except don't know how to mix and match for best nutrition, plently of walking dead with no blood to nourish brains and full of brittle bones. But then all religions teaches you to be stupid.

again, this perception is IGNORANCE. they think freeing the birds is a deed of compassion. if they spend $ for freeing, then those birds won't be captured. compassion or dummy compassion? it should be very clear now. practise compassion but add a pinch of wisdom into it. such freeing of captured animals is in reality a form of hypocrisy which is mistaken as compassion.

 

[leetahbar]

Actually, plants are living organisms too. Brain dead buddhists think only things that move are alive

bingo! spare the mozzie appears like compassion to buddhist. think again. that same spare mozzie would inflict disease and death to human. so is it still compassion when by not killing that mozzie results in the death of a innocent human due to its bite?

 

[Ramseth]

Don't kill the mosquitoes because in the law of nature, they are food for other creatures such as lizards and other insects.

Your blood is food for mosquitoes if you wish, but certainly not mine.

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

again, this perception is IGNORANCE. they think freeing the birds is a deed of compassion. if they spend $ for freeing, then those birds won't be captured. compassion or dummy compassion? it should be very clear now. practise compassion but add a pinch of wisdom into it. such freeing of captured animals is in reality a form of hypocrisy which is mistaken as compassion.

You missed out on another aspect of the "practitioner's" Buddhism - becoming a vegetarian. There are two issues that I could never understand about these vegetarians (I don't mean those doing it for health reason; I'm referring to vegetarian because you don't believe in killing):

(1) They eat eggs
(2) They use superb culinary skills to make vegetarian food "look and taste" like meat.

 

[Khun Ying Pojaman]

again, this perception is IGNORANCE. they think freeing the birds is a deed of compassion. if they spend $ for freeing, then those birds won't be captured. compassion or dummy compassion? it should be very clear now. practise compassion but add a pinch of wisdom into it. such freeing of captured animals is in reality a form of hypocrisy which is mistaken as compassion.

You missed out on another aspect of the "practitioner's" Buddhism - becoming a vegetarian. There are two issues that I could never understand about these vegetarians (I don't mean those doing it for health reason; I'm referring to vegetarian because you don't believe in killing):

(1) They eat eggs
(2) They use superb culinary skills to make vegetarian food "look and taste" like meat.

 

[Ramseth]

You missed out on another aspect of the "practitioner's" Buddhism - becoming a vegetarian. There are two issues that I could never understand about these vegetarians (I don't mean those doing it for health reason; I'm referring to vegetarian because you don't believe in killing):

(1) They eat eggs
(2) They use superb culinary skills to make vegetarian food "look and taste" like meat.

Singapore monks and Budhhists vowing vegetarianism, I don't understand. I'm a Christian but I've been to Thai and Singapore Theravada Buddhist schools before. Thai monks eat meat. All Thai lay Buddhists eat meat, beef and pork are favorites. You can slaughter them all you want as long as it's done humanely for the purpose of meat for food.

 

[Agoraphobic]

Singapore monks and Budhhists vowing vegetarianism, I don't understand. I'm a Christian but I've been to Thai and Singapore Theravada Buddhist schools before. Thai monks eat meat. All Thai lay Buddhists eat meat, beef and pork are favorites. You can slaughter them all you want as long as it's done humanely for the purpose of meat for food.

I think as Buddhist monks begging for food, they have to accept what is given, meat or not. As long as they did not kill the animal specifically for the monk, that is acceptabe.

Cheers!

 

[Agoraphobic]

I am not a Buddhist, but I try not to kill the mozzie who is sucking my blood. I contract the muscles at where the mozzie is and catch it. I then flick the bugger into the fish tank and the gouramis sure prefer them to the regular fish flakes.

Cheers!

 

[Maximilian Chua-Heng]

佛在心中坐，酒肉穿肠过！

To me, being a vegetarian is just one way to show that one's ingrained mental habit of having meat can be altered.

It's not a big deal actually. There are many other things one can do to prove that mental habits can be altered through sheer will.