Questions tagged [justice]
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Has the Buddha taught anything about how one should approach fixing society?
Has the Buddha taught anything about how one should approach fixing society?
Does the Buddha advocate for striving to make society better?
Does the Buddha have any practices for groups and societies ...
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Doctrine to address or alleviate someone's sense of betrayal?
Does Buddhism say anything about suffering as the result of having a sense of "betrayal" -- perhaps a sense of someone else having committed an "injustice"?
I think that for some ...
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The Justice Thought & System & its Morals?
Namo Buddhaya!
Here are my questions regarding justice systems & their morals:
Would it be skillful & moral to report someone to a principle, a police
officer, or any sort of authority ...
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Justice through soul-reincarnation
A pure, almost metaphysical but from the inside of me:
How would it sound that there is an afterlife of the more that 00 billion people that ever lived on earth since the begging of our species (as ...
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How do you know if you have bad/good karma?
Is it possible to know if you have bad or good karma?
A lot of things have happened to me in life that is very negative. I believe partially it is my own fault because the way I am and how others ...
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Meditators should judge other people?
How can it be proper for a meditator who does not yet see reality as it is...
...to judge other people so easily?
There is so much potential for subtle misuse of power, I mean I know I would be ...
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Blind police justice and right livelihood
The police seem necessary for any defiled society; but that doesn't mean being a police officer, who must follow laws objectively but also blindly, is necessarily right livelihood.
They are ...
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Why have a legal/ justice system? Let karma take care of things?
We all know people who are living immoral lives committing crimes but getting away by bending the law towards their side due to wealth and influence. When ever I see or hear something like this I keep ...
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obligation to render justice?
related to, but not the same as Does Buddhism have a significant notion of justice
I need some clarification. What is one's moral obligation to render justice (or bring to justice) others for ...
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If I download illegal material for my education and if the material is not in my reach in my country, is it still bad karma?
I downloaded a lot of things for 16 years I guess.I now understood this is a form of stealing.And i decided to delete my downloaded content.But some material is not found in my country,or if i order ...
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Does (bad) karma have to be depleted to be able to attain enlightenment?
This question came to me from over thinking the "Angulimala" story. He had to "repent" to some extent for the murders he committed, by being scolded an hit by stones. However, the effect of the karma ...
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What is the Buddhist perception of injustice, considering the law of Karma?
Considering the notion of our future being the result of our actions in the past, is there any room for the concept of unfairness in Buddhist philosophy? What is the right/skillful view one should ...
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Does Buddhism have a significant notion of justice
Owen Flanagan in this podcast argued while Buddhism has an extremely well developed notion of compassion, it doesn't have a significant notion of justice. He contrasts this with ancient Greek ...
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