Monlam Tharchin wrote: ↑Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:49 am
For what it's worth, I now avoid all political discussions on DW after many bad experiences.
I saw enough tempers flaring, name-calling, and so on to come to the same conclusion as kalden yungdrung.
Whatever the intentions of the posters, what I saw didn't often look like engaged Buddhism or bringing the Dharma to daily life.
What I saw was plain old forum flame wars with largely liberal voices dominating the conversation.
Absolutely bring your practice to every facet of daily life. Whether political threads on DW are helpful for that, they certainly weren't for me.
Tashi delek MT,
Agree 108% with your point of view, regarding dirty politics and discussing that on Dharma Wheel.
Politics are based on dirty games, fake news, rumors and more alike.
To get in touch with dirty things, causes dirty outcomes .
It is not so beneficial to be engaged in dirty things as a Dharma practitioner.
For instance a Dharma practitioner should also avoid looking at violent movies, it´s not good for the mind, my teachers told me.
Same beat for politics , which are here discussed to the bones, it causes a bad feeling during and after the discussion.
Then others here aboard gives or push certain private political opinions as valid and that causes also a certain strange feeling.
Everybody can be convinced about left, right and the middle political convictions, but then please outside Dharma Wheel at the polling station.
Again i realy would ask the head administrator to ban politics here aboard at Dharma Wheel, a place to discuss the precious Buddha Dharma and not dirty illusion, called politics.