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| Posted By: |
yipeekiyeah |
| Date: |
14-Dec-2004-00:56:34 |
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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy |
I have been studying Tibetan Buddhism rather diligently. And, I have run into a logical conundrum that someone here may have considered before, and found a solution for.
Here it is:
According to the Tibetans, if a person kills a mosquito (or any other insect for that matter), the karma is to spend half a kalpa in one of the really nasty hells -- Crushing hell I think.
I've killed countless insects just in this lifetime. According to this philosophy, I have endless kalpas to look forward to in Crushing hell.
And, I am not the only murderer of insects. Most people kill countless insects. So most people are destined to spend countless kalpas in Crushing hell.
It is an exceedingly rare thing to learn of the dharma. Beings go for endless kalpas without even hearing of such a thing as dharma. So, most beings never get a chance to practice the dharma to work out their insect killing issues.
This means that most beings have killed insects and have endless kalpas awaiting them in Crushing hell.
The karmic weight of those in hell must be so strong that all beings are spending endless kalpas in Crushing hell.
How does anyone ever hear of dharma? Their karmas should prevent that from ever happening.
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