Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:50:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and memetics Message-ID: <8280.924576624@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:41:06 CDT." <3.0.6.32.19990419214106.00925800@mail.bfm.org>
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> Guess what, I had to chuckle when I saw that. The fact is that the world's
> largest religion (as far as number of members goes), namely Buddhism, does
> not seek converts. Never did either. Never faught in religious wars. Its
> founder was reluctant to teach his disciples. Even to this day, when
> someone wants to convert to Buddhism, monks question his reasons and try to
> find out if there was a way for him to stay in his old religion, and only
> if there is no other way do they say OK, good idea. And the Buddha himself
> predicted that within 500 years of his time no one would even remember him
> or his teachings. That was 2500 years ago.
That's a pretty cool analogy and I'll have to remember it. I always
wondered at the sincerity of any religion that required people to be
virtually dragged in by the hair, either through guilt or literally at
the point of a sword (the crusades). I guess it's no coincidence that
of all the world's religions, Buddhism is the only one I actually
respect. :-)
- Jordan (who also spent 13 years living with a devout Zen buddhist
girlfriend and now captures and frees his domestic insects
rather than swatting them :).
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