[Buddha-l] swearing

[Piya Tan]

'Dho!

Sorry to be a wet blanket: but guys what about right speech? or more
specifically piya,vaacaa.

Piya

On 9/29/06, John Whalen-Bridge <ellwbj at nus.edu.sg> wrote:
>
> Regarding Mike's folk etymology in which "mantra" means "mind protector,"
> I once attended an enjoyable seminar at which Stephen Hayes, the Ninja
> teacher and Buddhist teacher in the Shingon tradition, defined mantra as
> "mind protective device."  He then said that non-Buddhists use mantra all
> the time, such as the much repeated phrase "fuck it," used to protect one
> from frustration.  "Fuck it,""screw it," and "to hell with it" can function
> not as attacks on another person but as mind-shields in the face of
> frustration.  The kids today are saying "Whatever!" as are many Buddha-L
> readers at this very moment.
>
> Regarding Richard (the non-ninja) Hayes's point that we should now say
> "humantra"-- that simply won't do.  "Man" is still unfortunately
> central.  We could try Persontra, but that has "son" in it.  I propose we
> all sit down and do 111,111 perdaughterntras to o'ercome the karma of our
> sexist predispositions and all these bad jokes.
>
> cheers, jwb
>
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