Beyond Violence: The Martial Way Of Buddha
Such developments are by no means incidently to early buddhism. In her study of violence in early buddhist texts, elizabeth j. Harris shows that buddhism is less idealistic in social and. Chaos, disorder, violence, extreme forms of brutality, riots ending up in war. Our lives are extraordinarily difficult, confused and contradictory, not only in ourselves, inside the skin as it.
It appears not as a belief, but as a practical necessity to the intentional and aware path of dhamma. “krishnamurti would tell you to investigate the workings of your own mind, in the same way that the buddha taught us to investigate how suffering arises and by discovering the roots of.