I am still thinking about it. Especially this part:
2:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaHnQml59E0
Here my transcription,
possibly with mistakes as I am not native english speaker
"Accidents can happen. People die in accidents and it is not their fault. People... When large numbers of people are killed….
I have read, I remember, an interview, an interesting interview which has been conducted by a particular buddhist professor with a particular buddhist lama on a subject of karma.
And the professor was really checking out what this lama seemed to believe. And I think the professor has asked him about the holocaust. Like all those millions who had been put to death, you know was that their karma? Was that… And …
And the teacher... And this is an eminent Rinpoche, said, there must have been something for all those people to suffer in that way.
There must have been something in their joint, their collective karma that was responsible for that, for such a thing to have happened.
And even on the printed page it was pretty clear that the Buddhist professor absolutely loathe that answer, that he did not respect it, that is not the buddhist view, it is a totally shameful thing for a buddhist teacher to put forward such a view. That because bad things were done to people, they must have been somehow responsible for that. That is not buddhism!"
I understood buddhist concept of karma in a way, that people who died in holocaust were responsible for their death, because they commited something bad in the past(for example killing other beings). Which seems to be in contradiction with following part:
"And even on the printed page it was pretty clear that the Buddhist professor absolutely loathe that answer, that he did not respect it, that is not the buddhist view, it is a totally shameful thing for a buddhist teacher to put forward such a view. That because bad things were done to people, they must have been somehow responsible for that. That is not buddhism!"
Do you find explanation for this?
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Thank you
kng
They all are buddhas, they just don't tell me, because they feel ashamed, that I am not.
Lama Ole Nydahl