Do we kill to stop killing?
There are groups of Buddhists who take the line "helping and protecting others" (from guru yoga) completely out of context from my view. Let me ask, should we have a great buddhist army, locked and loaded, ready to kill, in order to protect? I think not...
To protect from a buddhist view (my buddhist view) i...s like the Mahakala's protective energy, which is to protect us from wasting our lives, to protect our practice, our clear view so we will not to waste this precious opportunity, this life. Taking martial arts classes, spending time at the gun range, etc, are all fear based activities., this time is better spent "coming to know oneself."
We know there will be suffering, we cannot stop it, it is useless; instead we must protect our view of what the suffering means, and allow it to do its work in our evolutionary journey...
JMHO...gabriel
