The Buddha and Caste

[Sol Invictus]

The Buddha: Reactionary, sexist, elitist and quite possibly racist!

HAIL!

http://koenraadelst.blogspot.ca/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html

[rashka]

Buddhism originated in ancient India in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. and in the course of its development split into several religious-philosophic schools. The Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama, later called the Buddha, which means “the awakened one” or “the enlightened one,” is regarded as the founder of Buddhism.

Buditi in Serbo-Croatian: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buditi

[evon]

Me is planning to write a academic paper on the spread of Buddhism and Askokas role in this during his reign in the coming years hopefully by 2014..

[arcticwolf]

The Buddha: Reactionary, sexist, elitist and quite possibly racist!

HAIL!

http://koenraadelst.blogspot.ca/2012/05/buddha-and-caste.html

:picard1:

This is so silly that I don't know where to begin. If I wasn't a Theravada Buddhist I may have entertained that staff, but. Claiming that the Buddha was all that, shows total misunderstanding of his teachings.

First off noble in Buddhism refers to the mind, not to a cast or birth, or anything else, just the MIND, that's it.

To play cast, position, fame etc game one has to have a confused, unenlightened mind, a mind under the power of an ego, Buddha means enlightened, enlightened mind is ego less, clear, with no mental pollution what so ever. Such mind observers the 3 characteristics of all existence directly, namely: impermanence, IMPERSONALITY and suffering.
There is no way in hell, Buddha would emphasize anything that would strengthen the ego, which is the main source of a confused mind.

Secondly, in Buddha's own words "put no mind above your own", is plain to see he did not advocate a superiority of one mind over the other. The differences do exist, as beings come and go and are more or less developed mentally based only on their OWN efforts.

I'm not gonna spend much time on this because it's a waste of time, but once again it is the mind that makes one noble or not. Undeveloped mind will never be noble no matter who he/she is born as, unless that individual undertakes a serious effort to awake to reality.

What would we do without experts? :laugh: