A wrathful deity of Tibetan Buddhism, charged with holding underfoot great evils and great demons
when other Gods, Devas, Bodhisattvas and even Buddhas fail to do so.
A Bodhisattva will do anything to release those trapped by the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance so as to return the harm doer to a decent life and to prevent the harm they cause.
A QUESTION: Assuming that we will soon see the development of safe and effective pharmaceutical, hormonal, genetic and neurological medical treatments to increase human empathy when witnessing the suffering of strangers, to cure substance addictions, as well as means to forestall raging anger and violence (such as bodily implants to mitigate anger in convicted or likely potential violent criminals, or to mitigate sexual drives in sexual offenders, including child abusers), and further, assuming that proper procedures can be established honoring the civil and human rights of recipients as weighed against the social benefits, should they be employed?
If we imagine treatments, widely dispersed throughout the population, including (very importantly) widely among our powerful and ruling classes, to increase feelings of inner empathy by (arbitrary example) 30%, and concurrently to increase their inner feelings of revulsion at the thought of inaction upon witnessing or merely hearing about the suffering of distant strangers (much as one might feel were the sufferer one's own sibling or child), what would be their possible effect on headlines such as this?
Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday. ... [He is] "extremely worried" that WFP won't raise about $23 billion it needs this year to help millions of needy people "Right at this stage, I'll be surprised if we get 40% of it, quite frankly," he said.
... Beasley said he was able to convince the United States last year to increase its funding from about $3.5 billion to $7.4 billion and Germany to raise its contribution from $350 million a few years ago to $1.7 billion, but he doesn't think they'll do it again this year. Other countries need to step up now, he said, starting with China, the world's second-largest economy which gave WFP just $11 million last year. ... Beasley said the wealthiest billionaires made unprecedented profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, and "it's not too much to ask some of the multibillionaires to step up and help us in the short-term crisis," even though charity isn't a long-term solution to the food crisis.
... Beasley said he was able to convince the United States last year to increase its funding from about $3.5 billion to $7.4 billion and Germany to raise its contribution from $350 million a few years ago to $1.7 billion, but he doesn't think they'll do it again this year. Other countries need to step up now, he said, starting with China, the world's second-largest economy which gave WFP just $11 million last year. ... Beasley said the wealthiest billionaires made unprecedented profits during the COVID-19 pandemic, and "it's not too much to ask some of the multibillionaires to step up and help us in the short-term crisis," even though charity isn't a long-term solution to the food crisis.
The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor's care for an "emotional disorder" and had amassed a collection of guns, the city's police chief said on Tuesday.
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Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, the person of interest identified by police after Monday’s shooting in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people and wounded 47 others, left a long trail of tributes to mass shootings and public killings on social media platforms, according to numerous profiles that appear to belong to him. Crimo performed as a rapper who went by the name “Awake,” whose recent music videos included depictions of mass murder. ... Crimo also posted frequently to a message board that discussed graphic depictions of murder, suicide and death. His most recent post to that message board came last week, when he posted a video of a beheading.
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Robert “Bobby” E. Crimo III, the person of interest identified by police after Monday’s shooting in a Chicago suburb that killed seven people and wounded 47 others, left a long trail of tributes to mass shootings and public killings on social media platforms, according to numerous profiles that appear to belong to him. Crimo performed as a rapper who went by the name “Awake,” whose recent music videos included depictions of mass murder. ... Crimo also posted frequently to a message board that discussed graphic depictions of murder, suicide and death. His most recent post to that message board came last week, when he posted a video of a beheading.
At the start of his trial in the southern German city of Augsburg on Friday, a Zen Buddhist priest fully admitted to sexually abusing a total of seven boys over the course of a decade. The 62-year-old man is accused of 22 cases of sexual abuse, several of which have been deemed as "severe abuse" by prosecutors. He could face up to 15 years in prison. ... The abuse, which spanned a period of 10 years, involved victims aged between 4 and 13. "It hurts me greatly, that I caused so much pain," the defendant told the court, according to news agency dpa. ... Among other acts, Genpo Döring, former vice-president of the World Buddhist Association, long-time council member, deputy chairman and honorary councilor of the German Buddhist Union, had assaulted two brothers of primary school age, with whose mother he had started a romantic relationship as part of a bereavement support. He also abused a refugee boy whose father was murdered in Chechnya. Authorities uncovered some 2,800 files ofchild pornographywhile searching the man's house. According to court documents, he also occasionally took pornographic photos of his victims. https://www.dw.com/en/buddhist-pries...NASphin4OfnlwI and https://web.archive.org/web/20221202...issbrauch.html
(I am writing my book which argues 'YES!')
Dorin Genpo was a German Zen priest,
founder of the Bodaisan Shoboji Buddhist center, and is convicted pedophile.
He was a board member and honorary councilor of the German Buddhist Union
and Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists. In July 2017,
he was sentenced to seven years and nine months in prison by the Augsburg Regional Court
for more than 25 counts of sexual abuse of children.
MORE ON GENPO HERE: https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate..._x_tr_pto=wapp
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