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Maraya1969

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10. He said that he had been in a cult. One thing I have learned

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 11:17 AM

Jun 2015

is even if a person is a fraud or has some other bad qualities they still might be able to give you some wisdom.

Case in point. I was molested by a minister many years ago. I went through therapy, confronted him and basically healed from it. One of the things he said to me was, "If you want to say something to another person ask yourself, "Will it make this person richer for knowing what I have to say". If not then it's best to not say anything.

So I have used this over the years even before I knew anything about Buddhism. It is a good piece of wisdom and I'm not going to let it go because the man did a bad thing.

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If you want to help HH and other Buddhists try and stop the NKT protests... [View all] Maraya1969 Feb 2015 OP

NKT will eventually fade away vlyons Feb 2015 #1

I agree with a lot of what you said Maraya1969 Feb 2015 #2

How have they hurt you? vlyons Mar 2015 #3

Vlyons a student of a shugden lama? joshisaurous Jun 2015 #4

He said that he had been in a cult. One thing I have learned Maraya1969 Jun 2015 #10

Stop imputing your subjective crap onto me vlyons Jun 2015 #13

Tsem's students imitate others to sway opinion. joshisaurous Jun 2015 #14

Perhaps you should reread my posts again vlyons Jun 2015 #15

I appreciate what you say. And I copied that Maraya1969 Jun 2015 #7

The Dalai Lama isn't enlightened? How's that? nt LiberalElite Jun 2015 #5

I just mean that he is not a Buddha. He is a Lama which means he Maraya1969 Jun 2015 #6

I have numerous eons to go myself - i'm just starting nt LiberalElite Jun 2015 #8

Me too. There is a lot to learn with Buddhism. I just found a cool Maraya1969 Jun 2015 #11

I don't know if the DL is completely enlightened or not vlyons Jun 2015 #9

I just ordered the audio book! It has great reviews Maraya1969 Jun 2015 #12