A Christian Missionary once scolded a Zen Master, saying "Do you not realize that if you do not receive Jesus as your Savior, you will be condemned to an eternity of suffering in Hell?" The Zen Master calmly replied, in the spirit of the "Vow of the Bodhisattva", "Most gladly will I enter into numberless hells, for countless eternities, until I have helped all the suffering beings in those Hells to achieve their own liberation."
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They are both delusional and they are the ones who need to be saved...by a psychiatrist.
QUOTE (RedStarOverChina @ Dec 8 2005, 01:38 AM)
They are both delusional and they are the ones who need to be saved...by a psychiatrist.
How so?
QUOTE (RedStarOverChina @ Dec 8 2005, 02:38 AM)
They are both delusional and they are the ones who need to be saved...by a psychiatrist.
religious belief isn't defined as a mental disorder in the world of psychiatry.
^Right. Perhaps all they needed was an education.
QUOTE (RedStarOverChina @ Dec 8 2005, 01:46 AM)
^Right. Perhaps all they needed was an education.
What kind of education?
You know, the kind of education that will make the Zen munk just a normal boring guy who can't fire an arrow straight if his life depends on it.
The point of the quote I think is a delusional response (on purpose) based on a delusional quesiton.
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