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Apr. 20th, 2008 09:58 pmI'm merrily clicking along thinking of reincarnation, Buddhism, and the Whoverse, and I'm comparing charecters to various aspects, and I wander to the idea of the bodhisattva.
I get as far as Bo- and then I'm *facepalming*.
Bodhisattvas are beings that put off the end of their reincarnation cycles - constant rebirth is suffering, after all - in order to help others on the way to enlightenment. Of course, the being is supposed to chose do this out of compassion, but I cannot believe that Bad Wolf changed Jack without his consent, even if he doesn't remember it.
Okay, right now it's odd to describe Jack helping people realize there's a greater world. ( Hello, Retcon! ) But at the same time, he's awakening his team to the greater universe. He's not protylizing in the streets, he's aiding those who have already taken steps to realize that they are not alone.
And it takes baby steps to love the entire universe, after all. But he gets there.
This seemingly does not deal with the completely expected Christianity symbolism. Since Buddhism attempts to solve one spiritual problem, Christianity a completely diffrent spiritual problem, I see no problem using both in this context. Especially when the knowledge of one informs the knowledge of another, like the Fransician monk who supplements his theology with Tibetan Buddhism that gave I lecture I went to.
I get as far as Bo- and then I'm *facepalming*.
Bodhisattvas are beings that put off the end of their reincarnation cycles - constant rebirth is suffering, after all - in order to help others on the way to enlightenment. Of course, the being is supposed to chose do this out of compassion, but I cannot believe that Bad Wolf changed Jack without his consent, even if he doesn't remember it.
Okay, right now it's odd to describe Jack helping people realize there's a greater world. ( Hello, Retcon! ) But at the same time, he's awakening his team to the greater universe. He's not protylizing in the streets, he's aiding those who have already taken steps to realize that they are not alone.
And it takes baby steps to love the entire universe, after all. But he gets there.
This seemingly does not deal with the completely expected Christianity symbolism. Since Buddhism attempts to solve one spiritual problem, Christianity a completely diffrent spiritual problem, I see no problem using both in this context. Especially when the knowledge of one informs the knowledge of another, like the Fransician monk who supplements his theology with Tibetan Buddhism that gave I lecture I went to.
