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Dondrup Shugden

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Re: Did the Dalai Lama underestimate the strength of our samaya?
« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2015, 09:51:35 AM »
If the Dalai Lama underestimate the strengthen of our samaya, would that also be inferring to the fact that if our samaya is weak as seen by the Dalai Lama, then can we safely assume that the Dalai Lama sees a fault which he may have himself. (Sorry to say that). It is often believed that we cannot see the goodness nor badness of another if we don't have them. A case of mirror reflection.

Because in the Dalai Lama forsaking his Guru samaya with His tutor Trijang Rinpoche, he may be seeing that samaya is of no great virtue to Buddists.  What a mistaken view, Namo Guru Beh.

Matibhadra

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Re: Did the Dalai Lama underestimate the strength of our samaya?
« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2015, 06:10:38 PM »
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Perhaps, the Dalai Lama is trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.

This idea boils down to the worn-out, un-Buddhist theological theories about the "necessity of evil", or the so-called "theodicies".

Behind such ideas lies the need, seen by Jews and Christians, to justify the misdeeds of their "God" as "necessary evils".

In the same way, some deluded Buddhists want to apply the same method to justify the crimes of the evil dalie.

Such theories are essentially aimed at justifying the crimes of someone seen as an authority, be it a putative "God", be it the evil dalie.

However, Buddhism is about liberation from bondage, not about covering and justifying criminality.