It is true, perhaps, that this instrument which had stood the test of a thousand years for the moral regeneration of a man from slavery to freedom and to moral perfectibility may be a two-edged weapon and it may lead some not to humility and complete self-control but to the most Satanic pride, that is, to bondage and not to freedom.
– Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Yuttadhammo
Hmmm…. Whenever I read stuff like that, where even ordained trying to find answers in explicit non-buddhadhamma, I ask myself: Is this another sign of the decline of Buddhadhamma? Hmmm….
Wisdom, wherever it may be found, is still wisdom… It is a decline in the Buddhadhamma when people criticize what is dhamma as not dhamma and see what is not dhamma as dhamma.
The Satanic Pride Is Just A part Of The path…
It is just a point, not a end result…
So Yes and No…
Turn Satanic Pride, Inside Out?
What will emerge after the blessings of failure and
suffering…