THE BUDDHA MEETS HOLGER DANSKE
FROM SAPPHOAround all the harm inflicted upon Buddhism by means of history has been caused by Islam, says Ole Nydahl. He finds it agonizing that Buddhists never secured themselves. Muslim extremists now danger Buddhists with new storminess
6. april 2007 - Lars Hedegaard
It is thick to believe the fact that Ole Nydahl is a Buddhist lama, i.e. a nature authorized to keep the tradition carried on from coach to scholar since the days of the Buddha. He holds a eminent appoint within the discord of Tibetan Buddhism open as the Kagyu tradition, and Sappho met him in one of the Kagyu Buddhists' appealing buildings on Svanemolle Street in the middle of Copenhagen's embassy gardens. But once upon a time it comes to other religions, Nydahl energy not speak in his muscle as a lama. The Buddha lived 2,450 living ago and thus did not pronounce any judgment on religions such as Christianity or Islam; consequently Ole Nydahl - in his position as a Buddhist coach - energy not do so either. Immobile, as a "prone, notions mortal individual" Ole Nydahl energy happily speak out.
Hannah And Ole Nydahl
Happening our confer, Ole Nydahl's companion Hannah - his ally passing through good times and bad since they each one satisfied to Buddhism in the course of a stomping ground to the Himalayas at the end of the 1960s - was under concentrated depend on in unorthodox room. Hannah Nydahl - who, together with Ole, has founded 520 Buddhist centres all chief the free world and travelled the foxhole for enhanced than 30 living - was inoperably ill with evil and barred to pace anymore.
Hannah Nydahl died on April 1, 2007.
But Ole Nydahl did not see any hypothesize to argument the questioning. The work - the sprint - goes on in bitterness of all the sorrowfulness of this world. That is too the mood one gets once upon a time reading his books. In the book "Riding the Tiger" with the header "Twenty Soul on the Road: The Risks and Joys of Bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West", tersely to be published in Danish as Haughty alle graenser, he describes a 1974 stomping ground to Denmark by a have fun of eminent Tibetan Buddhists led by the C.E.O. of the Kagya tradition, the 16th Karmapa. Nydahl length of track for his concert party to be introduced to the old Nordic gods and the Olden times heroes, whose morals of boldness and "the bristly elder lip" he finds enhanced appropriate than ever in a time of "empty emotionality, lack of form and awful disorganize".
The Karmapa was too definite the area to stomping ground Holger Danske ("Holger the Dane") at Kronborg - open to readers of Shakespeare as Elsinore Castle. Holger is - writes Ole Nydahl - "our country guardian and deserves particular the best. He busted the Muslim Arabs in the Pyrenees... and saved the excess of Europe."
Sappho is categorically visiting a holy supervisor who packs a destroy
POTENTIALS OF THE Mind
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Charlemagne In The 11th Century
La Chanson De Roland
(The Song Of Roland)
"- Happening a speech you gave a few days ago within in Copenhagen, you articulated the hint that holy and cultural knowledge may be lost?"
"Yes, clear cultures with different views of the mind's ability wolf passed on in our time. The intellect is unlimited and anecdotal pass by make it realizable to do new contacts with some of its special quality. For instance the keepers of a culture suspend, the knowledge take undue credit with that culture dies with them. Light scrutinize at our Greenlanders" [Danish Inuit people - translator's list].
"We endure in times characterized by an mind-blowing vulgarization and forgetfulness relating to our way of life. Into in Scandinavia it is a bit take a break than in utmost parts of the world, but it is really a empathize that universally ancestors do not feint the ability of the intellect."
"- Heaps of us can get the hang of a time once upon a time we had neither Islam nor Buddhism in this state. Now we wolf certified an invasion of thinking that are perplexing to Danish culture."
"The compassionate and broadminded aspects of Buddhism were never perplexing to us. They are in the Danish work. The tradition about the formation of the intellect are unorthodox mechanism. The realisation that we can particular see convalescence come out in the open ourselves being we facing harbour that overtake gives meaning to everything. The path and the gathering become pardon, and we can work our way towards states of intellect that are maneuver to every person. That evolutionary destiny is open to a person."
"- At the enormously time we are witnessing the difficulty press forward with the stretch to of the Islamic law-religion founded on the hint that one want enthusiastically counter to a set of unadorned system dictating everything one necessity embrace, responsibility and do?"
"To put it cleanly, it is really agonizing that ancestors - some time ago 2,000 living of press forward towards excess within in Europe - cannot be acquainted with their ability, do not trust themselves, or are so ill brought up that they chuck off their free energy and counter to a strict and fascist set of laws. For it is acquit despotism to propose oneself to other ancestors in that way - no mechanism if it is to a deity dictating what to do, a analyst, Hitler or Stalin. It is consistently the enormously. Whenever you renounce ancestors their excess of pronouncement and sovereignty, you shave them to injurious beings."
"- But ancestors do that to themselves? "
"Yes, earliest they do it themselves. Subsequently the set of laws armed them to tell untruths in a dither of serfdom."
HERD-POISON
"- How can one cleanse the mortal feel like for submission?"
"Aldous Huxley, who I strenuous intensively at the school, called it 'herd-poison'. If a lot of ancestors do whatever thing, it energy attract others who insolvency to belong or be a part of whatever thing. And if an incipient chain is thoroughly diehard, it energy consistently attract inevitable anecdotal public. That is the hypothesize why whatever thing that is roughly unwilling utmost people's formation may become powerful and thus very troublesome."
"- To the same degree can we do to flake this?"
"We necessity see to it that clothes are in the open. We necessity uphold that ancestors who wish to use less of their institute - and who may thus become a bug to inhabitants who insolvency to be free - can be taunted, laughed at and improbable for what they are. In other words, they want be treated delicate a person else. If you allowance such ancestors a place to believe and say that they necessity not be teased being that rule make the analyst or someone joined shrill, for that reason we are on the aim to destroying the undertake of progressive generations to be free. If we accept that ancestors are not unrestricted to embrace for themselves nor to bake clothes as they are, we may well represent it as a evil. It is whatever thing that is unwilling society's current line of press forward. This growth necessity be fought by vivid the ancestors who specify indication that there are other undertake - if they recuperate an yearn for living."
BUDDHISM'S Damage
A Horrific Buddha Figure In Bamyan,
Afghanistan, Erected In The 6th Century
A.D., Blown Up By The Taliban In 2001
"- How has Buddhism fared in relation to Islam?"
"Around all the divorce suffered by Buddhist culture has happened passing through Islam. In their harassment of polytheism Muslims wolf most probably been barred to be knowledgeable about between the Brahmans and the Buddhists. They wolf seen a lot of idols and alleged that Buddhists worshipped them as manifestation armed. Immobile, our paintings and statues do not representation gods but forms of energy facilitating super-personal and beneficial experiences."
"If we go southward in Afghanistan from Mazar-i-Sharif and down to Kandahar and for that reason east, we energy find the old Buddhist chief frontier that was shattered by three Muslim invasions chief the predict from 900 to 1100. That was Ashoka's old chief frontier and where Buddhism originated. Sophisticated Islam began to infiltrate down passing through India. And, according to new Indian dip into, the Muslims killed some 80 million Indians from ca. A.D. 1200 up until the English stopped it in the 18th century. We are verbal communication about Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and others. If you announce Arabian sources, the example "budh" - the dishonorable word of Buddha and Buddhism - denotes someone worshipping lots gods and whom Muhammed says necessity be killed under all pass by. Who cannot even pick up dhimmi-status. Come to the original Buddhist as aim passing through Sample Asia was shattered by Muslims. So one rule say that we wolf had a lot to thank Islam for by means of the living."
Anguished PACIFISM
"- Why didn't the Buddhists conflict back?"
"Having a waterproof, insincere logical set of laws is very immoral. For instance you do, you energy wolf a road to bring all your friends along the length with you taking part in an ivory development and pass up all the prevailing ancestors direct a propos down underneath. To the same degree energy ancestors do whose religion resembles a Swiss cheese - full of holes and devoid of logic and and so standing on feet of clay? Best, the enhanced leaky one's religion is, the enhanced one energy try to swing others in order to swing oneself. All according to the important principle: billions of flies eat fertilizer, billions of flies cannot be criminal."
Ole Nydahl emphasizes that there is zero criminal with Jesus calming his adherents to make all ancestors his disciples. Behind schedule all, Nydahl himself tries to swing ancestors of the blessings of Buddhism. To the same degree he rejects is the practice of subjugating the infidels by major of the sword.
"- Are there no examples of Buddhists having hard up arms? Keep up they all adhered to a radical pacifism?"
"Yes, I'm frightened so. I am not aware of any install invulnerability to warfare. And that is really agonizing once upon a time you see your companion, your children, your dear ones, your friends individual butchered, and you wolf not armed yourself to protect them. It necessity be massive."
"- Is it individual discussed in the midst of Buddhists today - that you want wolf done something?"... Read the rest
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