dzogchungpa wrote:
This is an egregious example of wuss shaming.
You
like it, dzogchungpa.
Dzogchungpa likes it everybody.
Myoho-Nameless wrote:
Looks like i'm joining tinder. I just hope that chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo during the digital union of scattershot ammo and enemy newb is also indeed what is called "earthy desires are enlightenment".
srsly tho.
So thats Nichiren. You know, that sort of thing was what made me think twice initially about looking into this buddhism.
Speaking of scattershot, I was thinking the other day about how roadkill may actually be one of the most Buddhist ways of obtaining meat, right next to consuming a naturally fallen animal...
The teaching above (purportedly) from Nichiren is important for regular "lay" people to know there is a way to practice to reach enlightenment even while engrossed in defilements. I've defaulted back to my interest in Zen—to what I
know—but my main inspiration might have more to do with what I've seen people do with the idea one way or another. The OP is actually inspired by a conversation I had with a Buddhist hoosier on a trip I took. I got a dating site message from an 18 year old polyglot with a Muslim background and a palpable lack of a father or other strong authority figure in her life and brought the scenario up to him in a "why not" kind of way. Where are the brakes, and if there aren't any, why not just crash into that bush? So to speak. He just narrowed his icy, money green eyes into the shape of rice grains, as if offended, and skirted the topic. Then he kicked a puppy and said, "I despise living things!" I think he prays to Mara for children to get sick.
Someone pointed out that the concept in discussion is
hongaku thought and part of Zen anyway. I'm just looking for different perspectives.