{"id":666,"date":"2006-09-27T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/09\/way-of-warring-buddhist.html"},"modified":"2006-09-27T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T11:49:00","slug":"way-of-warring-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/09\/way-of-warring-buddhist.html","title":{"rendered":"The Way of the Warring Buddhist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to faithful reader Pacific231 for this response to our conversation about sending love to bullies and other irritating people:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I strongly believe that feeling compassion for a bully must not translate into martyrdom&#8230; A very recent Buddhist book on the subject of politically-engaged Buddhism&#8230; mentioned how ancient Buddhist armies were most certainly not pacifistic. 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