Mav went to Japanese resteraunt and given a drink in a Buddha. Do you think Buddha would be pleased to be a container for alchohol?
hmmmm, Mav ponders
2006-12-28 04:59:57 · 18 answers · asked by Mav here! 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I asked him. He has no objection to it.
2006-12-28 05:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the drink you had was more likely shaped like a Hotei. There are sushi places where I live that sell the same drinks, and you get to keep the container.
In some cases, Hotei is the image of a future Buddha and other times he is merely a non-religious symbol of abundance and prosperity (hence the fat belly).
Think of it more as a cultural thing than a religious thing -- roughly parallel to drinking coffee from a Santa Claus mug in the West. Both Santa and Hotei are considered to be important religious figures (a saint and a bodhisattva respectively), but they also have a less formal side to them.
2006-12-28 05:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ponder? Buddha doesn't care, becuase the alcohol, the container and the people handling/drinking it are all empty of inherent existence. Buddha doesn't care if statues are knocked over of the Buddha and destroyed, nor does anyone Buddhist, unless of course they have not developed a calm mind free of aversions and attachments to some degree or totally.
2006-12-28 05:03:41 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Buddha is not container, buddha is any being who has become fully awakened, enlightened, and has permanently overcome desire or craving (lobha), aversion (dosa), and delusion (moha), or ignorance, and has achieved complete liberation from suffering.
You must now ponder the following questions:
Is the world eternal?
or not?
or both?
or neither?
Is the world finite?
or not?
or both?
or neither?
Does the Tathagata exist after death?
or not?
or both?
or neither?
Is the self identical with the body?
or is it different from the body?
.
.
2006-12-28 05:01:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt he would be overly concerned with it. It seems pretty petty. Anyway, Buddha never meant to be worshipped. He was not a god. Merely an enlightened one who can show the rest of us a thing or two.
2006-12-28 05:03:41 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth L J 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
LMAO.
Mav long tim no seee!!! chippy miss you!
in all honesty, i dont think id want a little me, holding liquid, and having people ddrink the liquid out of me. that would be... awkward. - but then again, im not really buddha...
2006-12-28 05:01:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buddha had a great sense of humor, he would probably laugh about it for a few minutes, and then give us a pearl of wisdom. Too bad, I would have liked that pearl.
2006-12-28 05:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by Stephen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not, coz buddha wont be pleased to see u committing sin. it makes no different that a person gives buddha a meat. simply this is very a disgraceful act. basically u would have to pay back according to the karma sutra or cause and effect sutra.
bear in mind that even Gautama Buddha he himself has to pay back for the sin he used to commit even after he has enlightened and become a buddha. He was forced to eat horse's wheat as he failed to beg alms. this is because he used to insult buddhist monks who came to his house for alms. he yelled those buddhist monks to eat horse's wheat and thus, he paid back the sin he used to commit after he has become a buddha.
2006-12-28 05:04:16 · answer #8 · answered by Mike P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddha was said to have a good sense of humor. He was not one to take offense at much.
2006-12-28 05:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by Sara 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Buddha would be neither pleased or displeased - that would require a self-image and desire.
~ Eric Putkonen
2006-12-28 05:06:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mav, I think you're cute...
And since Buddhist teachings are against alcohol, as it is against the 5 Cardinal Precepts (#4-no intoxicants), I would think he would disapprove.
2006-12-28 05:04:04 · answer #11 · answered by Kiss My Shaz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋