/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14861642]

According to the Tibetan text Masked Drama of Rebirth in the Peaceful and Wrathful deities, Srijata reincarnates to a higher plane due to having more good pebbles than bad pebbles in his favor. Going by this logic, you could kill millions of people and if you solved world hunger or ended a war you would reincarnate to a higher plane. How do the Buddhists here argue against this logic?

[Anonymous No.14861680]

firt mahayana is hinduism
second it is a trademark of mahayanists to say that their guru do bad deeds but only because those deeds appear bad to non-gurus.

hindus are not good at understanding that ''karama is cetana'', so according to hindus, as long as the intention of a human is good, the gurus can do bad deeds according to the buddha.

in fact the hindus say that hte bad deeds will get the guru to hell, but the gurus say that the guru going to hell is so wise that he will endure hell easily and then both the receiver of the bad deed and the guru will get enlightened

you have to understand mahayana as gurus larping as buddhists.

[Anonymous No.14861912]

>>14861642
>Going by this logic, you could kill millions of people and if you solved world hunger or ended a war you would reincarnate to a higher plane

What's wrong with that?

[Anonymous No.14862022]

>>14861642
>You cannot redeem yourself no matter what you do
How do you argue against this?
Also in many other schools of Buddhism there is no pebble count determinism.

[Anonymous No.14862176]

Because most Buddhist schools explicitly reject such a utilitarian view of karma. You can't count the pebbles.

[Anonymous No.14862233]

>>14861680
Attacking Mahayana doctrines that are clearly positives is like when people on /lit/ attacks Marcus Aurelius for his opium addiction. They're more likely to just improve the view on opium than harm the good reputation of Marcus Aurelius.

You just make Theravada look worse when you go after Mahayana like this.

[Anonymous No.14862603]

>>14862176
Okay but the Tibetans do suppirt this so to them, that logic makes sense? Kill whoever you want and just make sure to do a bunch of good things to off set it?

[Anonymous No.14862707]

>>14862022
Then what is the proper way to look at it from those schools of Buddhism?

[Anonymous No.14862840]

>>14862603
It's not "kill whoever you want". Kill if necessary and if you have the wisdom to fully comprehend the causes and effects of action vs non-action.

It's basic pagan morality of "An evil deed is that action which any just man would regret after having committed it."

[Anonymous No.14863417]

>just have more good pebbles bro lol