Timeline for Is Project Mayhem, or Tyler Durden, buddhist?
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| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:57 | vote | accept | nilon | ||
| Jun 22, 2016 at 23:08 | comment | added | cde | Ends justify the means. That doesn't seem very Buddhist. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 20:39 | comment | added | nilon | Again great comment @cde Quoting: "wealth itself is not evil or wrong in buddhism, just greed or harmful methods of gaining wealth". I'd add: if harmful methods of producing wealth are frowned upon, then eliminating them may be a good thing. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 20:31 | comment | added | cde | That's a philosophical debate. But no one would really argue that free yourself from your possessions in any way is self-destructive. Well, you could say that throwing out something someone else could use, is violence or injury. Lack of compassion. Buddha gave away his wealth. And wealth itself is not evil or wrong in buddhism, just greed or harmful methods of gaining wealth. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | nilon | Great answer @cde! So self-destruction is out of the question? `cause I understand that in buddhism there is a bit of there is no ego as in there is no spoon in matrix. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 20:00 | comment | added | cde | Causing someone to lose their possessions, jobs, home, all consequences of Project Mayhem, is an injury. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | cde | Ahimsa is a concept inspired by the premise that all living beings have the spark of the divine spiritual energy; therefore, to hurt another being is to hurt oneself. Ahimsa has also been related to the notion that any violence has karmic consequences. While ancient scholars of Hinduism pioneered and over time perfected the principles of Ahimsa, the concept reached an extraordinary status in the ethical philosophy of Jainism. Most popularly, Mahatma Gandhi strongly believed in the principle of ahimsa. Ahimsa's precept of 'cause no injury' includes one's deeds, words, and thoughts. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:50 | comment | added | nilon | I honestly don't know @cde . I mean: destroying ALL possessions ... what buddhist rule or idea does it break? I ask because I'd like input. I also asked elsewhere. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:44 | comment | added | cde | passing on your own materialism, fine. Suggesting the same to others, sure. Forcing it on others through violence, or destruction or theft, most definitely not. | |
| Jun 22, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | cde | I'm pretty sure murder, blackmail, and bombing buildings are not Buddhist values | |
| S Jun 22, 2016 at 18:24 | answer | added | nilon | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Jun 22, 2016 at 18:24 | history | asked | nilon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |