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Did Buddha explain Dependent Origination as an upaya or skillful means? If so, why?
If so, how approximate is it?
If by "DO" you mean "the 12 nidanas", I found the exposition of that in the suttas barely intelligible -- little more than a dry list of the 12 items, saying that each d …
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Are practical solutions to everyday suffering that contradict Buddhism Upaya or avidya?
Unfortunately (because it doesn't answer your question), I'd guess it's better to find "practical solutions to everyday suffering" that don't contradict Buddhism.
When my father died, there's a couple …
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If the literal truth causes confusion, but a lie portrays the truth via a careful misunderst...
As a counter to the other answer, Wikipedia's article on upāya ('skillful means') describes the Parable of the burning house:
The Lotus Sutra contains a famous upaya story about using the expedien …
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Handling Poisons?
Part of a definition of "skilful" might be "adapted to specific features of the actual situation", so perhaps this isn't a question which can be answered in general.
Speaking of "handling poison", in …
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Is there such a thing as craving for enlightenment and would it be unwholesome?
As others have said, people distinguish between an always-unwholesome "craving" (tanha), compared with a potentially-wholesome "desire" (chanda).
I guess the difference might be two-fold:
Whether the …
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Killer Neighbors
Is it skillful to not intervene in his acts of killing, knowing he will not understand?
If you wanted to, how about just saying, "Blessed are the merciful", see how he understands that?
I wonder if …
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The Justice Thought & System & its Morals?
You might reflect that "beings are heir to their own kamma".
Ideally too it wouldn't be the case in society that "the cure is worse than the disease" -- perhaps it's better, when you're at school, be …
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