Often we hear some talk about how the Buddhists are supposedly blindly valuing and following moral virtue, this is what actually is said:
It is, bhikkhus, only to trifling and insignificant matters, to the minor details of mere moral virtue, that a worldling would refer when speaking in praise of the Tathāgata. And what are those trifling and insignificant matters, those minor details of mere moral virtue, to which he would refer? [..]
From Sutta Pitaka i.e. Buddhist scripture
Buddha, in the Buddhist scripture refers to moral virtues as minor details, mere morality, trifling and insignificant matters.
It is also spoken strictly against practicing moral virtue just for sake of gain / 'being nice'.
More so - one is not even considered to have entered the Way before he leaves attachment to trivial matter like this behind. If one is still following heteronomous morality - i.e. the kind of morality one follows because someone else said one should follow it or because the scripture says it he is not even considered to have entered the Way.
Often we hear argument that the Buddhists are just doing it all by blind religious faith.
This is what is actually said in relation to what some call 'religious faith of Buddhists':
Don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, "This contemplative is our teacher."
Not based on written word, not even based on faith in some master.
One is never asked to believe anything by faith, more so it is strictly spoken against it.
etc
Submitted November 23, 2018 at 03:30PM by ZaoPing https://ift.tt/2qXkDkq
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