Think of a short essay

Raquel 2021-12-24 08:01:42

I don't want to say too much about Bill Maher, because I have no right or obligation to take responsibility for others' heads. But then again, I remembered a short essay about the subject involved in the film, and now I turn it around here to examine the world from another angle and think about my own life:

"If there really is a Buddha, you What is lost?

There was a Chinese scholar many years ago. One day, he told people at a conference hall that there is absolutely no possibility that the Buddha could exist. When the audience felt that his words were reasonable, he challenged the Buddha loudly and said: "If you If you are really enlightened, please come down and kill me in front of the broad masses, and we will believe that you exist! He deliberately waited quietly for a few minutes, of course the Buddha did not come down to kill him. He looked around and said to the audience: "You have all seen it, the Buddha does not exist at all!" "How do you

know that there was a woman with a scarf wrapped around her head, stood up and said to him: "Sir, your theory is very good, you are a learned person." I'm just a rural woman and I can't argue with you. I just want you to answer a question in my heart: I have believed in the Buddha for many years, and I have the teachings of the Buddha in my heart, and I am very happy; my heart is full of the comfort that the Buddha gives me; because I believe Buddha, life has the greatest happiness. I would like to ask: If I find that everything the Buddha taught me does not exist when I die, what will I lose if I believe in the Buddha for the rest of my life? "The

scholar thought for a while, and the audience was silent. The audience also agreed with the rural woman's reasoning. Even the scholar marveled at the simple logic. He whispered: "Madam, I think you have not lost anything." "The

rural woman said to the scholar again: "Thank you for such a good answer." I still have a question in my mind: when you die, if you find that the teachings of the Buddha are absolutely true, there are also the existence of the six paths of reincarnation and the existence of beyond the six paths of Buddha, I would like to ask, what have you lost? "The scholar thought for a long time, but was speechless. "

So far, I still remember the shock when I first encountered this article, and the soft, warm light of wisdom that was moved by the peasant women's plain words.

Such a living, such a life, I don't know what Bill Macher would say.

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  • Bill Maher: [Extra] What about when innocent people get killed during a "defensive action"?

    Michael Bray: I'm for that. Yeah. It's collateral damage.

    Bill Maher: But it's acceptable?

    Michael Bray: We've got to consider what the real issue is here and what the cost is and the risk.

  • Bill Maher: [Extra] This is the Anne Frank house, when you see it you really understand how true that phrase "The banality of evil" really is. One of the common arguments in defence of religion is that Hitler wasn't religious and neither was Stalin or Mao and they were bad so religion is good. But like religion itself it's an argument that really depends a lot on not thinking too deeply. For one Hitler himself didn't eliminate anyone personally he had a lot of footsoldiers most of whom were good Christians and they pushed people into the ovens. Religion has done a bad job of stepping up and preventing violence-prone bullies from doing their thing. If anything it usually justifies acts of madness. And 20th Century Fascism and Communism while not strictly religions as we've come to think of religion, really were religions. They were state religions. Hitler was seen as infallable and Godlike. Hirohito was absolutely a God on Earth to the Japanese people. We shouldn't get too hung up on the word religion. The bottom line is whether people think and act rationally or not and whenever they organise their lives around something that could best be described as groundlessness bad things happen. Even if the central story seems harmless like there's a God who loves you so much that he had his only Son whacked so that you could keep on sinning. Still, doesn't matter, once reality has left the building, once it's up there in the ether then anything can be extrapolated or tacked on by Preachers and Priesthoods and delusionals and power-hungry pricks. It's not that big a step from "your God is the only God and he loves you very much" to "you really should get out there and start killing for him" Whenever people believe in something utterly groundless because they were told it by a charismatic preacher and Hitler was nothing if not that, all bets are off. Nazism was a religion, a religion based on the insane fiction that Jews were subhuman vermin who did not deserve to live, but people and people not from a primitive society believed it because A they liked the preacher, B the other sheep around them were buying into it even though it was crazy and C it was inextricably tied to their view of a glorious Valhalla-like future. A, B, C. Religion.