7. Holding Onto Guilt
Think that as a buddha you can help whoever was harmed or not helped by you, and generate bodhichitta.
For the Holding Onto Guilt part, I am not quite understand, can you explain more on this. Thank you.
“Guilt” means simply “debt”. We are all indebted to our mother sentient beings, who have taken care of us since beginningless time.
The only way to redeem, or repay, this debt is to achieve buddhahood, which enables us effectively to help our mother sentient beings.
Denying this debt owed to our mother sentient beings is very wrong, as it denies dependent arising. And we cannot repay our debt if we do not recognize it.
Besides, keeping this debt unpaid brings only depression and unhappiness. Repaying this debt is the source of every joy and happiness. It means peace, redemption, and deliverance.
Therefore, the only possible way out of “holding onto guilt” is to recognize our debt, owed to our mother sentient beings, and to repay it, achieving buddhahood. Therefore, one generates bodhicitta, or the resolve to achieve buddhahood in order to benefit all sentient beings.
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Some misguided teachers may think that there are other methods not to hold onto guilt, such as thinking that we are not indebted to our mother sentient beings, and abandoning them to their own suffering, or not feeling responsible for their welfare. This might create a short-lived, delusional feeling of relief, but actually will make things even worse, increasing our debt and guilt feeling. This is the brutal way of materialism and capitalism in general.
Other perverted teachers try to capitalize on the feeling of guilt, describing it as the result of an offence against some god, and enhancing it to the point of making their followers feel unworthy, depressed, dejected, dependent, submissive, and therefore easily subjected to abuse and exploitation.
Such wicked schema, by the way, is the very essence of Christianity, as invented by the Jewish debt (or guilt) collector Paul of Tarsus, with his clever ideas of “original sin”, and the Christ's monopoly of redemption (except for Jews, of course, by whom and on whose behalf Christianity was invented, as Islam for that matter).
Indeed, Paul conceived Christianity as a giant, global debt collecting schema based on manipulation of guilt, as it defines all non-Jews as inborn debtors (because of the guilt of the “original sin”), who could only find “redemption” through subservience and enslavement to the Jewish debt-owning god through his debt-collecting son, Jesus Christ.
In a similar way, international bankers together with institutions such as IMF and World Bank, imposing their loans of fake money on countries and peoples through corruption and war, try to define all human beings (except of course for such bankers themselves) as debtors, already born as debtors, who can only find “redemption” working as slaves throughout their lives in order to pay such debts.
To sum up, “religion”, war, finance, banking, interests, government, economy, austerity policies, labor laws, media brainwashing propaganda, and so forth, it's all about guilt, or debt, manipulation.
