[Buddha-l] Vajrayana on buddha in the Buddha (Mitchell Ginsberg)

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 13-1-2010 22:38, Timothy Smith schreef:
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Mitchell Ginsberg wrote:
>
>    
>> He does believe that there are many levels of process
>> (psychological, personal, interpersonal, etc.) that we are usually
>> not aware of. He has seen his teachers with great subtle
>> understanding and awareness that inspires him deeply, and also has
>> him wonder about issues that he asked me about recently, and some of
>> which I've passed on here, at his request.
>>      
> I've always felt that good leaders, teachers, and counselors generally
> would qualify as bodhisattvas on the basis of demonstrating
> generosity, ethics and integrity, patience and understanding, energy
> and effort, self-reflection and clarity, in a wise and open-hearted
> manner (thereby excluding all post-moderate Republicans)  I'm not sure
> that the religious or miraculous is at all required (tho I wish to god
> that someone would intervene with those same PMRs).
>    
I think that one can even be a bodhisattva and a republican. The 
standard conception of an upperhuman is a person who is perfect in every 
possible sense. This may be wrong. Someone can have a perfect character, 
but be utterly stupid, one can be an expert in texts, but very dogmatic. 
I admire the Dalai Lama, but I'm sure he made some serious mistake and 
that he is biased because of his education. Persons may be multilayered 
and especially now in these postmodern times it is difficult to tell 
exactly what someone is and what not. I think that Buddhism is very 
naive in this respect and a task of Buddhologists and philosophers is to 
bring some wisdom here.

erik