I made him sound like a baptist preacher in this

Those having faith in formless God do not worship statues of Stone. The grinding stone in their houses is better than the stone* *[as it feeds people] From the Bheem-Ambedkar-Shatakam. www.sanskrit.nic.in/DigitalBook/... CC: @skillfulmean.bsky.social

Saṅkhitta Sutta (AN 8:70)

Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda describing the means by which Dabba Mallaputta, arhat, performed his duty of allocating lodgings to visiting monks seeingthroughthenet.net/wp-content/u...

"People who cherish love and desire do not see the Way.-- To explain this Dharma to Westerners is difficult, because no matter what Westerners talk about, it always concerns love and desire. This is especially true of followers of certain religions who say, "God loves me, and I love God." ..."

Buddhist Supersessionism: According to Master Hsuan Hua, when Buddhism was first introduced to China, a challenge was set: Buddhist and Daoist texts were set alight, and the true sect's books would survive. The Daoist books were destroyed, and the daoist masters lost their ability to do miracles.

bhikku, to me you are like an unladen donkey standing by a door-post or a dustbin or a drain

buddhism has this but it's mostly people who want to justify anti-natalism and drug use

Middle Length Discourses, Ñāṇamoli and Bodhi, p433.

Master Hsuan Hua criticises the hippies "Today's hippies want to turn the times around. Brandishing "Confucius Says" yet at the same time—guess what?—they smoke opium and marijuana... as if those do not injure or wound their bodies." www.cttbusa.org/esscommentar... @skillfulmean.bsky.social

Yunqi Zhuhong on the Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci

Master Hsuan Hua criticises Daoist neidan practises "There are religions whose members eat mucus. They say that they are "smelting the cinnabar." They also eat tears and ear wax thinking that these filthy substances are precious jewels. Isn't that pitiful?" archive.org/details/Amit...

out-of-character to post about Metta but whatever it's the weekend suttacentral.net/iti27/en/suj...

from red pine’s road to heaven

Sengrui on Kumarajiva

"he will have his body turned upside down, and molten copper will be poured into his excrement orifice which will then permeate the organs of his body including the large and small intestines and burn them."

shāntideva beast mode

one for @skillfulmean.bsky.social: the militant monk Wirathu, praisee general Min Aung Hlaing's generosity in "donating" cities to the rebels x.com/BuddhismView...

daoist feng zunshi criticizing buddhists. anthony c. yu's translation in his revised journey to the west

zhiyi’s 小止觀 recommending to balance your stupid with your crazy

Believing in the authority of the Veda, claiming that a certain being is an agent, looking for religious merit in ablutions, showing pride with reference to caste, and undertaking austerities in order to eliminate sins, those are the five signs of stupidity, whence all intelligence has disappeared.

It is amazing that the proponents of impermanence, who rely on the path of the Buddha, argue as they grasp at existent things. Nagarjuna's "60 Verses on Reasoning," verse 41, translated by Eviatar Shulman in "Nagarjuna on Impermanence, the Buddha on Illusion," 2008

Good son, you should not say that sentient beings do not have Buddha-nature just because you have a mind of retrogression. Mahaparinirvana Sutra, T 12.779b7-c4

few have gone as hard as miaozong did here. fyi horses are a common metaphor for enlightened beings

anti-upanishads polemics with a bonus jab at "lowly people [who] weep in the face of death" in the Guhatthaka Sutta. endnotes for context. from Fronsdal's 『 The Buddha Before Buddhism』

Hanshan hating on meat eaters. JP Seaton translation

ad hominem <<<<<< 照妖鏡

Master Hsuan Hua defending the Surangama Sutra against (depraved) skeptics. Elsewhere you can find him claiming homosexuality is a symptom of the dharma extinction age and that it’s proliferation will lead to human extinction Source: x.com/edwardw2/sta...

Yunqi Zhuhong on the Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci

Lao-tzu lived during the Chou dynasty; the ruler did not know him, and the masses did not recognize him. He did not presume to put forth even one word of admonition [to the ruler], and was not able to save even one person [among the masses]. Zhiyi, Swanson (trans),『Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight』

If God could give birth to a son, then evidently the Christian Heaven is the third one of the system of the Trailoka... viz the Kama-Dhatu; and God would be the ruler of one of the “Six Heavens of Desire”. So God himself and all the beings of his heaven are mortals Pi-Cheng Lee『An Outline of Karma』

If one made such distinctions as yours, The errors would be extremely numerous. Therefore, what you have said, Is not correct in its meaning. Nagarjuna, Bocking (trans), 『Nagarjuna in China: A Translation of the Middle Treatise 』, 1995, 17v12

Such differences are immeasurable, such that they cannot be expounded, and [attempting to do so would be] tiresome. How can one take the deviant and oppose it to the correct? Zhiyi, Swanson (trans),『Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight』, 2018, pg. 949