"Rogue" isn't just D&D and X-Men...
Nov. 4th, 2005 09:57 pmOkay! i haven't yet posted today, so here we go:
Buddhism is one of those religions that groups people. That is, they usually belong to a temple that belongs to a sect, etc, etc, just like Christians usually belong to a church that belongs to a Church (the difference is in the capitals), etc, etc. That said, there is the occasional rogue. Usually we know of them throughout history because they started their own sect, or Church, and therefore are noteworthy. Still, not everyone can do that, and not everyone wants to.
See, I'm a Buddhist because I read the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) in 8,000 Lines, supposedly one of the most difficult and confusing sutras out there, and said, 'hey, this makes sense!' Everyone else in the class was going on and on about what did they mean and how did it work like that, and I was like, dude, it's obvious, you can't tell?
So I decided, why not accept the world view and the god system and the types of rebirth (which also made sense in the same way the Prajnaparamita did, and gets reflected all across various early religions / animistic belief systems (BTW, screw you 美術史の先生, for insisting on that distinction, like it really makes much of a difference) all over the place) and really become a Buddhist? And I did.
But I don't belong to a sect, much less a temple, so I'm a rogue Buddhist.
And there we have the promised explanation.
Buddhism is one of those religions that groups people. That is, they usually belong to a temple that belongs to a sect, etc, etc, just like Christians usually belong to a church that belongs to a Church (the difference is in the capitals), etc, etc. That said, there is the occasional rogue. Usually we know of them throughout history because they started their own sect, or Church, and therefore are noteworthy. Still, not everyone can do that, and not everyone wants to.
See, I'm a Buddhist because I read the Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) in 8,000 Lines, supposedly one of the most difficult and confusing sutras out there, and said, 'hey, this makes sense!' Everyone else in the class was going on and on about what did they mean and how did it work like that, and I was like, dude, it's obvious, you can't tell?
So I decided, why not accept the world view and the god system and the types of rebirth (which also made sense in the same way the Prajnaparamita did, and gets reflected all across various early religions / animistic belief systems (BTW, screw you 美術史の先生, for insisting on that distinction, like it really makes much of a difference) all over the place) and really become a Buddhist? And I did.
But I don't belong to a sect, much less a temple, so I'm a rogue Buddhist.
And there we have the promised explanation.