Posted on 03/14/2024 4:24:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man in Thailand who went on a violent rampage at a temple in the Chonburi province died after being impaled by a Buddha statue.
On Feb 27, the 49-year-old man, who went by the name Ek, had taken methamphetamine in the temple with his friend - a monk at the temple who goes by the name Best, reported Thai media outlet Thaiger.
Ek then attacked Best with a fluorescent tube. While the latter ran away to seek help, Ek went on to smash statues in the temple, before fleeing into the main hall.
When the police arrived at the temple, Ek had locked all the doors and windows in the main hall, preventing officers from entering.
As they suspected Ek might have a weapon, the police waited outside and attempted to convince Ek to surrender himself.
However, there was no response from the man.
When they broke down the door and entered the main hall, the police found Ek lying in a pool of blood, with a Buddha statue pierced through his chest.
According to investigations, he had tried to climb and deface the largest statue in the hall but slipped and fell, landing on the sharp end of another statue below, South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday (March 13).
The statue's head had pierced his heart and lungs.
According to residents in the Banbung district of the province, Ek had stayed with Best at the temple for a few days before the incident, Thaiger reported.
Best told the police that he took drugs with Ek and agreed to leave the monkhood for his misconduct.
Thailand?
Singapore is, but I don’t know about Thailand. Could be.
Karma payback can be a bitch!
how embarrassing to be killed by a static statue-
Probably an unregistered assault Buddha.
I thought Hindus believe in reincarnation, not Buddhists.
Give Buddha a little meth, and he’ll go crazy too!
Indeed. Being de-monked is a lot better than being de-ceased.
BUddhists do beleve in reincarnation.It has to do with the Law of Karma.
Different Lineages put different degrees of emphasis on the process of death and rebirth, which is regarded as a natural process effecting all beings.
Contrary to what many believe, there is no conflict in this with other religions which beleive in heaven and hell, into which Muslims and Christians believe they can be born after death.
BUddism pays attention to this process of death and rebirth because the whole point is to transcend the cycle of karma
altogether, to go beyond the round of birth and reincarnation, to dwell permanently beyond the whole thing, as an enlightened being with a profound consciousness .
The Mahayana schools emphasizse that these buddhas return repeatedly for the benefit of others , not dwelling in enlightenment until all beings transcend the round of suffering of old age sickness and death.
The path of course is achieved through meditation , resting the mind in peace, and expanding awareness so that wisdom has an opportunity to grow and invest ones karma.
Also the manner in which one passes away can influence the path one follows into rebirth in a physical body, thought to happen at the moment of conception.
The cyclic aspect of reincarnation is reducable to rebirth in every moment, our very mind works that way, as thoughts and emotions are continually arising, dwelling and passing on from ones mind.Its the same cycle in a reduced way from ones whole life, the process or reincarnation actually happens from moment to moment as our minds experience the arising of thoughts and emotions, how they dwell in the moment and how they pass on. SO in that aspect we have little moments of birth of thoughts and emotions, dwelling on that thought or emotion and seeing it pass away , usually replaced by the next one.Upon death ones body dissolves/dies, thefore there likely can be confusion but essentially karma is the pattern which attracts one’s consciousness to an act of conception and rebirth.ONe can be reborn inti heaven or hell, and there re also 4 other realms.
It is meditation ( Shamatha) which interupts the speed and operation of this process, and it slows down this thought process so that we begin to experience non conceptual gaps in it, Then one can have glimpses of one’s basic nature, what has been called “bodhi” as the process continues, and also experience of sunyata, space which is full and empty at the same time, described in the Heart Sutra.
https://www.nalandatranslation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Heart-Sutra-for-website.pdf
So reincarnation is simply a larger process of what happens with our minds from moment to moment.The Buddha discovered
how to transcend the process.
This view has been comercialized in modern films such as the Matrix , where worlds into which we see incarnate in that film are illusory and even hell like as a battle between good and evil. Matrix is a very interesting film based on the whole idea of reincarnation.
Forgive me if I have written too much, but I clearly know of these things as an old man getting ready to die of old age in the next 10 years or so.
People iNterested in meditation do not need to look too far.
Here is basic instruction from a lineage holder, the instructions very easy to understand, but very difficult to execute, it takes discipline and daily practice in the morning and the evening, one does not have to become a Buddhist to learn meditation :
How To Meditate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZy-uITowY
And for those who are Christian, such meditation beings an opportunity to empoower prayer from the space created by meditation, It can be a way to take away all the static from one’s “phone line” connection to the Divine.
I am writing this now , because we are likey entering some very difficult times world wide. Transcendant approach is one of many ways to battle it.
THank you for asking NickCaraway.
Although I couldn't have explicated the details so well as you have it is just the way I understand it, just the way I practice.
I am writing this now , because we are likely entering some very difficult times world wide. Transcendant approach is one of many ways to battle it.
I also suspect things are going to get pretty rough. They don't have to but it doesn't look good at the moment. That said I would add that transcendant approach is good in good times and bad times. It never hurts to be calm and reflective. :)
I don't see the statue as the aggressor in this situation. :)
We’ve all done this at some point.
It never hurts to be calm and reflective. :)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yes, which is my weak point. If I died this angry I would likely not fair well in the next rebirth.Save me President Trump? LOL.
Ki Ki! SO SO! ,ashe! Lha gyel O, tak seng kyung druk dyar kay !( Absolute, Relative, Primordial Stroke. Heaven be Victorious,Tiger, Lion ,Garuda, Dragon Dignity....a Nyingma warrior’s Battle Cry).
Soon we will have to mount up and manifest Lung ta, when others feel all is lost.
That might be my weak point.
But I am Nyingmapa too and I can easily hear my teacher say "Suck it up, Buttercup!" with the biggest grin on his face you could imagine.
But I am Nyingmapa too and I can easily hear my teacher say “Suck it up, Buttercup!” with the biggest grin on his face you could imagine. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I have been fortunate too in knowing that face.
The Bodhisattva path is arduous but light, demanding but light like a feather.May we realie that samsara and nirvana are one and the same.
Of the siddhas I have known, 4 in all, not one gtiouted his magic, but they each could have conquered the worlod with their reespective siddhi. They all chose to walk the path of the Bidhisattva instead, even subject themselves too ridcule in order to walk that path.
You are lucky to have such a teacher. Enjoy it as much as possible because they leave their bodies and pass on. I should have spent much more time with those I knew, but it was so difficult to stay close to them for long without becoeing a monastic, and my karma would notallow that in this life, although now I sometimes long to be a monk.
I am afraid he has passed. Late May 2021.
He was at once one of the gentlest people I have ever known and one of the most wrathful. The latter quality acknowledged by many including the the lama who made him a teacher and that with much amusement of the fact. :)
I finally see enough to ask him some useful questions but can’t. OTOH I am certain he gave me all I need to proceed. I pretty much know what he would say about anything, dharma and otherwise, although it would be nice to hear it from him. To say the least, he was never shy about giving his opinion! lol
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