[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Villages PL

If a thread is discussing or debating something, I don't believe it's intolerant or judgemental to tell someone you think they are wrong. You then explain why you think your way or position is right or better. There's nothing wrong with that.

There is nothing wrong when you explain in detail how you think you have a great idea or a better position. However I think telling a previous poster they are wrong is judgmental.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Is the term "transcending ego" Buddhist? Or perhaps something to do with Yoga? It isn't familiar to me.

Tolerance in Buddhism
Many Buddhists believe that world peace can only be achieved if we first establish peace within our minds. Buddha said, “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” (Siddhārtha Gautama) The idea is that anger and other negative states of mind are the cause of wars and fighting. Buddhists believe people can live in peace and harmony if we abandon negative emotions such as anger in our minds and cultivate positive emotions such as love and compassion

Buddhists have shown significant tolerance for other religions: "Buddhist tolerance springs from the recognition that the dispositions and spiritual needs of human beings are too vastly diverse to be encompassed by any single teaching, and thus that these needs will naturally find expression in a wide variety of religious forms." (Bhikkhu Bodhi, "Tolerance and Diversity".) James Freeman Clarke said in Ten Great Religions (1871): "The Buddhists have founded no Inquisition; they have combined the zeal which converted kingdoms with a toleration almost inexplicable to our Western experience."

"The faiths of others all deserve to be honored for one reason or another. By honoring them, one exalts one's own faith and at the same time performs a service to the faith of others." (Kristin Scheible, "Towards a Buddhist Policy of Tolerance: the case of King Ashoka" in Jacob Neusner, p. 323)


The five precepts are the foundation of Buddhist morality for lay Buddhists:

1. Do not take the life of anything living. (Do not kill)
2. Do not take anything not freely given. (Do not steal)
3. Abstain from sexual misconduct and sensual overindulgence.
4. Refrain from untrue speech. (Do not lie)
5. Do not consume alcohol or other drugs.

Love Meditation

Buddha of Love (giving love and peace).


1. Universe. We visualize the whole universe, make circles with our arms and think, "I wish a world of peace, love and happiness. My way of truth is ..."
2. Television. What man on television today touches you negative or positive? Clean the energetic connection. Give him a positive sentence. Think the sentence as a mantra until you have overcome all attachment or rejection. Everything you see outside makes a knot in your soul. Create harmony in your mind. The first step to happiness is to create a positive world in your mind. We move a hand and send all the people light, "I send light to ... May all people be happy. May the world be happy."

[senior citizen]

Buddhism has many words of wisdom. So do other world religions.....all with a common theme of love and peace.

Mankind breaks these rules, making their own rules..........

Most mature adults who have lived as long as all of us have........should be able to discern that each of us come from a slightly different upbringing, but that "life in general" has taught us to enjoy the differences we all bring to the table.

If we were all the same, how boring would that be?

Also, to accept things "blindly" is a bit narrow minded.

Although we were brought up Catholic, my mom allowed spiritual exploration as she was a free spirit herself......reading voluminously, as I did, of all the great world religions............all preach love and tolerance. Man changes that when making their own "rules".

We have a cousin, brought up similarly, who is still stuck back in the 1950's and thinks all the young folks today should live that way..........not going to happen.
However, common decency should still prevail as we allow our young folks to make their own life choices...........and we seniors should tolerate each others' opinions.

[SALYBOW]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Is the term "transcending ego" Buddhist? Or perhaps something to do with Yoga? It isn't familiar to me.

To me, transcending ego would be to move past my own self wants, needs etc to consider the wants and needs of another.

[DAWN MARIE]

Making judgments is part of life. If I saw a man strewn out on the park bench day after day with a liquor bottle in his hand I would judge him to be an alcoholic with maybe no place to stay. If I saw a girl, dressed in a less than acceptable way, standing on a street corner late at night trying to solicit men I would judge her to be a "working woman."

These would be making "right" or "logical" judgments. We make judgments like this every single day. These judgment calls can help us in making decisions on whether to help or walk away.

From a Christian POV it's not about making judgments it's about making right judgments. There is such a thing as judging wrongly. It's about judging others with hypocrisy and/or malice. That's wrong. How can I judge someone in a critical or malicious way when I'm just as guilty?

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by SALYBOW

To me, transcending ego would be to move past my own self wants, needs etc to consider the wants and needs of another.

The Golden Rule.

Works for me.

[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

The Golden Rule.

Works for me.

It's true in all faiths........

The Golden Rule (alphabetically listed)

Brahmanism:
This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.

Buddhism:
Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

Christianity:
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12

Confucianism:
Surely it is the maxim of loving kindness. Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you.

Islam:
No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.

Judaism:
What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowman.
That is the entire law; all the rest is commentary.

Taoism:
Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.

Zoroastrianism:
That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsover is not good for itself.

Collected by and courtesy of Elizabeth Pool