Sotapannas and killing
Sotapannas and killing
Do Sotapannas/stream enterers have the ability to kill according to the Mahayana understanding?
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Assuming you are referring to Mahāyāna stream entrants, i.e. first stage bodhisattvas, sure——they definitely can end the life of evil beings in order to protect sentient beings.
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It's not possible.Shinjin wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 6:09 pmI'm talking about the Hinayana stream enterer.
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Since stream enterers get rid of view of self, clinging to rituals and doubt, how does it follow that they can’t kill?
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So since they have no doubt they have perfect faith in the Dharma and because they have perfect faith in the Dharma they have perfect faith in the precepts and someone who has perfect faith in the precepts won’t/can’t break the precepts?
Trying to understand the reasoning behind it. Thank you.
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https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/stu ... ssociation"And what does it mean to be consummate in virtue? There is the case where a noble disciple abstains from taking life, abstains from stealing, abstains from illicit sexual conduct, abstains from lying, abstains from taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness. This is called being consummate in virtue.
"Monks, there are these six rewards in realizing the fruit of stream-entry. Which six? One is certain of the true Dhamma. One is not subject to falling back. There is no suffering over what has had a limit placed on it. [1] One is endowed with uncommon knowledge. [2] One rightly sees cause, along with causally-originated phenomena.
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Alright, thanks.Malcolm wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:39 pmhttps://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/stu ... ssociation"And what does it mean to be consummate in virtue? There is the case where a noble disciple abstains from taking life, abstains from stealing, abstains from illicit sexual conduct, abstains from lying, abstains from taking intoxicants that cause heedlessness. This is called being consummate in virtue.
"Monks, there are these six rewards in realizing the fruit of stream-entry. Which six? One is certain of the true Dhamma. One is not subject to falling back. There is no suffering over what has had a limit placed on it. [1] One is endowed with uncommon knowledge. [2] One rightly sees cause, along with causally-originated phenomena.
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It might also be noted that a bodhisattva from the second bhumi does not commit any of the ten bad actions, as stated in The Ten Bhumis chapter.
'The bodhisattva abiding on this ground
naturally abstains from engaging in bad actions.
Because he deeply delights in good dharmas,
he naturally practices the courses of good karmic action.'
(Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds, ch 28, p 490)
'Since they have the abundant qualities of discipline,
They refrain from faulty discipline even in their dreams.
Because the movements of their body, speech, and mind are pure,
They accumulate the actions of the genuine ones’ tenfold path.'
(Madhyamakavatara 2.1, in The Karmapa's Middle Way, p 610)
'The bodhisattva abiding on this ground
naturally abstains from engaging in bad actions.
Because he deeply delights in good dharmas,
he naturally practices the courses of good karmic action.'
(Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds, ch 28, p 490)
'Since they have the abundant qualities of discipline,
They refrain from faulty discipline even in their dreams.
Because the movements of their body, speech, and mind are pure,
They accumulate the actions of the genuine ones’ tenfold path.'
(Madhyamakavatara 2.1, in The Karmapa's Middle Way, p 610)
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?
2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.
3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.
4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.
1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"