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Buddhist monks warned to stop using social networking sites

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Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 08:30

BUDDHIST MONKS are using social notworking sites to seduce women, prompting Thai officials to call for them to stop doing so immediately. The request may have come a tad too late as Karma Police in the North East of Thailand today arrested a 23 year old monk for using the internet to lure a teenage woman to his temple, where he subsequently raped her.

On Tuesday, junior minister, Jakrapob Penkair, told reporters "I call on Hi5 users to tell the monks to leave the site if they are found using it". So no more adding monks to your friend's list.

According to Reuters, it is not rare for the Thai media to air reports about wayward monks caught abusing or peddling drugs or being promiscuous with women.

But Thai officials have urged the monks to act in ways more befitting of a their religious status, with a senior Culture Ministry official saying the monks should use the Internet to bring Buddha's teaching to more young people.

Ladda Thangsupachai, head of the Cultural Surveillance Centre, echoed this sentiment and said, "Instead of using the Net to flirt with young girls, monks should find ways to preach Dharma and lead them in the right direction". µ

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No more Buddha inside

Buddhist churches should be no more connected with Buddhism, as they often go against the most basic things what Buddha taught.

posted by : dramenbejs, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Buddist in Amsterdam

In last two weeks in February, I too met Intel People, Semi buddist. Their Arm waving is Ancient WARRIOR Symbol, like Knighted Horsepersons with Lances, in TO WAR Formation, So Buddististic.Thats on first canal near strasse gart.om.Also that smell is one of thousands of non active canabinols, just testing you. Sort of like Foam Breasts.That all too is Buddist like.

Also if you want to see Bill Gates pre cebit, try New Market Strasse in front of New Market Internationale Hotel, you'll recognize him, I Did. I'd say more, yet why upset cherry juice cart? It too is Buddist Relic, like Ivory granite. In fact all of Europe is Buddist Cemetary.
Signed: Drashek


posted by : New_Market_Strasse, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
Yup

The Buddha said that it is the church that destroys a religion.

posted by : PenGun, 04 March 2008 Complain about this comment
The Job of Disposing Rotten Apples …

A few rotten apples can spoil the basket they say, and that is true when you are talking about marketing/representation and microbes but what are the microbes when you are talking about human behaviour? In what manner can immorality be transmitted? When it come to the human minds, without knowing what a human is really born for, corruption is all there is. When the complete picture cannot be seen, snapshot views are all about corruption and corrupting. 

To the rescue comes the innate primordial taboos, the absolute Truth within all humans. Virtue, and virtues are not about moralising/finger-pointing but about the innate taboo of walking shamelessly naked on then highstreet, say. Unless you are an idiot out to prove a point or a lunatic driven by whorish desires. Just to make up some reason for existing and blindly following it.

The Buddha, or the enlightened/absolute ego, represents the human mind that is the ego [anger, cruelty, action, the future] for he potentialised, “Do not harm others”, whereas his contemporary, The Mahavira, or the enlightened/absolute superego, represents the human mind called the superego [guilt, subtlety, conditionings, the emotions/inactivity/lethargy/the past] for he potentialised, “Do not harm yourself”. [These two contemporaries are always “born together” within history]. Absolute Morality, the Truth within, without a single exception regardless of beliefs and desires, is exactly the same within ALL for Morality is that which is benelovent to ALL whereas “morality”, finger-pointing, is for the benefit of the finger-pointer only. And these idiots-cum-lunatics are able to vote & dictate how others should behave? “Look gov, what do you want me to do if I do not know what I am exisitng for”. Fair dinkum mate. Carry on with the sha****g.……

posted by : wheelus, 05 March 2008 Complain about this comment
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