nudgerman

With the water pressure in some of those guns .... could lose an eye

Or ride your bike and get knocked off by a bucket of water and end up in hospital.

Prats .... not all ..... but too many

Oh .... Happy New Year Everyone.

He certainly speaks a language that the criminals understand.

What a Vile Ugly deed visited upon these two Women ....... I cant imagine their last moments.

The perpetrators deserve nothing less than the death sentence.

A Severe beating is trauma to the body no doubt about that one.

This will be a shock to the body no doubt about that one.

This can lead to the possibility of a heart attack. No doubt about that.

If the man had carried on playing Hi Lo would he have died from any causes or injuries..... we very much doubt that.

After a car crash you can die from your injuries and those injuries will be deemed to be the cause of your death.

But Hey the car crash was the cause of those injuries.

Was it really necessary to bludgeon this man?

My heart breaks for these boys and their Parents ....from what we are allowed to know there is not any substantial damning evidence against them.

Their internment and death sentence makes me sick to my stomach.

This is a many headed monster with the need for real justice to be pursued ...... 

I do not believe they are culpable, and that in truth cannot be proved either way

Set them free is the decent and right thing to do.

Listen Up Great Britain and Europe .......... Oh too late!!!

The song is a great and noble one .......... as for some of the supposed singers ... well i will leave you to complete that thought.

Yes, I believe shock is appropriate for a time, and then there is a time to act upon it.

According to modern pschology the ego is a necessary part of our life mechanisms, which is why the Buddha or the Prince

commented that the highest path was that of the family.

The middle path, because it required such a deft balance between

moderation, abstemiousness, and the exigencies and temptations of life and there are no more temptations available in this society

than those presented in the family. In other words, temptations most ordinary people can financially afford.

Especially the care of children and the elderly and what I have seen here in great abundance, is

those opportunities slain for the sake of money, greed, perversion and abuse at the family level.

Shocking is a good word for it, even if its not strong enough.

Buddha renounced all things in his search for enlightenment sex , money, title, and somewhere, after the time he attained enlightenment he said

"Do not worship me i am not a God if you want to be like me follow the path i have laid out" and bear in mind he was from Nepal not Thailand.

However Thailand adopted his teaching and have ever since worshipped him, totally missing his message of mindfulness of the Ego of which manifests itself in many forms in Thai culture.

None more so than face.

In a nutshell they fail to see the folly of their ways (as do many of us do i might add)

Regarding the Middle Way.

The middle way is less austere than the path Buddha took.

Approaching life via the middle way is mindful to my understanding inasmuch that it teaches us that to live a world full of Ego and that we have to have necessary Ego but dispense with the unnecessary Ego.

There are of course true and good advocates of his teachings here in Thailand usually in the mountains .... but it needs to be taught to the young properly in their school days.

As foreigners we have little or no say in that..... Peace

Nudgerman writes

The word Buddha (for that was not his real name) means "fully awake" which as a man (a prince) is what he remarkably achieved.

Any monk not following the path that he laid out is asleep and living in Ego, for it was only by annihilating his Ego did he become and attain enlightenment.

So in answer to your question:

No this incident has nothing to do with Buddhism in any way shape or form and anyone following his teachings that then deviates from it is off the path.

The song is a great song but not all singers are great.

reply to that

Point taken, obviously, but the question was rhetorical and I thought that would be obvious.

If you can't sing at all, and can't even grovel in key, then get off the stage.

Apart from the diligent attempts of a number of TV posters, how often do you see an editorial or thread or post commenting on the extreme disparity that exists in this country between the tenets

of their relgion according to the books, and ideologies of their much vaunted religion and the consistently violent attitudes of the followers?

Footnote. This is not Thaialnd bashing: The same may be said for other countries, but we live here and contrast makes this country interesting, but a man of peace is shocked by the differences in this area of life here. Its time the people got off their butts and started talking about it.

No means no, period.

That's true, but murder is not the right response either.

Whatever, whatever, is this Buddhism at its best?

Any monk not following the path that he laid out is asleep and living in Ego, for it was only by annihilating his Ego did he become and attain enlightenment.

So in answer to your question:

No this incident has nothing to do with Buddhism in any way shape or form and anyone following his teachings that then deviates from it is off the path.

The song is a great song but not all singers are great.

Being so young and even though he was in the right place, he never grasped or fully understood the true meaning of Ego.

Now he will live in disgrace.

I have always favoured cream buns at ten paces.

Life is cheap over here .... unless of course it's theirs.

Always nice to see a learned monk demonstrate his knowledge by giving a visible sign as to how he's conquered his ego ....

That is not a slit throat ..... that is a nasty gashed throat ..... as seen on stickboy/slit throat

Should these poor unfortunates be found guilty of these crimes, this would be a gross travesty and miss-carriage of justice to any civilized world, nation or country ..... of course that's only my opinion.

An accident waiting to happen.

We all need protecting from ourselves at times ....... If this country started applying proper safety standards incidents like this would become rare.

Yes it could be said he should have been more aware.

Very sad R.I.P Sir.

It's just a phase he is going through. A Thai at 28 is just a teenager after all, look at the intelligent alert face, he can change for sure.

Yes yes i can see what you mean

These two boys are headed towards the rocks of disaster and all decent folk feel a deep concern for them .... and how to avert that no one seems to know.

The murder of those two young decent holidaymakers was done in a manner of extreme hate and violence ...... Where would or how would those two Burmese boys develop motivation like that?

However if someone had an argument with the young lady and Face was felt to be lost ..... no more smiles just hate.

Just saying!

This woman is full of remorse ...She knows it's futile to say sorry ....For what's done cannot be undone and she will never be the same again.

She knows she was driving to fast and the margin for error was getting smaller, yet she did it.

The Wife and Family will never be the same a again ....... The whole thing is a great tragedy.

For those of us who drive and have driven at high speed ... we have got away with it and hopefully by experience we have gained Wisdom.

This woman didn't get away with it.

Nothing will cleanse that fact ...... not now not ever.

Bad ambassadors for the Sport ..... Unfortunately.

I am in disbelief as to what some people think .......a knife is a no no FULL STOP.

What a pathetic excuse for a Man ....How big and Brave!!!

Let's all tell lies and hide atrocities ...... Russian Roulette anyone .... oops sorry i mean holiday!