RE: Jainism
July 17, 2020 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2020 at 1:40 pm by Porcupine.)
(July 17, 2020 at 8:04 am)Belacqua Wrote:(July 17, 2020 at 6:11 am)ModusPonens1 Wrote: those who are partial to Dialectalism
I don't think there's any dialectic going on in the description above.
Correct, sorry, my mistake. I meant to say "Dialetheism".
(July 17, 2020 at 9:46 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Ultimately, jain princes and societies acted just like any other, regardless of what their magic books told them to do.
Then they weren't practicing Jainism. The fundamental rule in Jainism is "Don't be violent" ... so when a person who self-identifies as a Jain ends up being violent ... it's because they're human and humans can be violent. There's nothing in Jainism that says "Sometimes it's okay to be violent." Even self-defense is said to hurt oneself and be a bad thing, in Jainism.
So, yes. Their magic book told them to do something and they failed to do it. So, silly or not, magic or not, they still were failing to practice Jainism while they were being violent.
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts
