"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." [The Dalai Lama, in The Seattle Times, May 15, 2001].
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reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."------- [The Dalai Lama,
in The Seattle Times, May 15, 2001].
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of guns, as the blackest
deed."------------- [Mahatma Gandhi- An Autobiography : The story of
my experiments with truth, by M.K. Gandhi, p.238].
Even the mass-murderer Anguilamala, in the Majjhima Nikaya of
Buddhism's earliest texts, became an Arhant in very short order in the
Anguilamala Sutta. This is an important and defining characteristic
between Buddhism and Jainist pacifism, which very few make any
distinction thereof. Jains themselves ignorantly deny that wisdom can
transcend karma (actions) 'in an instant', of which Buddhism and
Advaita Vedanta do indeed claim.
"I got good merit (in a past life) for killing the evil man"-Gotama
Buddha [Jataka 4-197].
Pacifism is not an ARYAN virtue.
Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing".
"Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian
between meals" - Ammon Hennacy.