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SeiserL · 06-19-2007, 07:01 AM

IMHO, I know that one of the percepts is to "refrain from doing harm", yet sometimes the "right action" is to do the least amount of harm to protect the most amount of people, because yea "life has suffering" and I am only making a conscious choice about who will be doing that suffering. Do not confuse Buddhism or Aikido with passivity.

06-19-2007, 07:01 AM	#14
SeiserL Location: Florida Gulf coast Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 3,902 Offline	Re: Aikido, Martial Arts, and Buddhism IMHO, I know that one of the percepts is to "refrain from doing harm", yet sometimes the "right action" is to do the least amount of harm to protect the most amount of people, because yea "life has suffering" and I am only making a conscious choice about who will be doing that suffering. Do not confuse Buddhism or Aikido with passivity.
	Lynn Seiser PhD Yondan Aikido & FMA/JKD We do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training. Train well. KWATZ!