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joshisaurous

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13. Sangha does not include all Buddhists.
Mon Jun 22, 2015, 09:11 AM
Jun 2015

The Sangha is a refuge jewel.

Buddhists around the world don't take refuge in just anyone, you must be a stream enterer to be Sangha. Monastics are only taken symbolically as the sangha until they have stream entry.

This idea that everyone is part of the sangha is mistaken, if not malicious.

NKT and Tsem's students have taken bodhisattva vows, but they have been instructed with warped meanings to protect their cult leaders. Arguably, if you have taken them, but not understood them, then you cannot hold them for more than an instant.

The vows are held by largely by refraining, but how can you refrain when you don't know what you're refraining from?

If you take a vow not to kill, but you think that means not to pop your knuckles, even if you do not kill you are not actually holding the vow.

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