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...true that Buddhism knows no sense of guilt [July 26] as in the Christian doctrine of original sin, but the doctrine of karma, with its stress on individual responsibility not only for deeds but also for thoughts, in a word, for attitudes and their results, whether for good or evil, would hardly allow one to make such a statement as the above. In short, Buddhism would have us transform the world by first transforming ourselves. This is accomplished, according to Buddhist dogmatics by practicing six perfections: charity, morality, zeal in spiritual progress, patience, concentration leading to control of mind...
...Rolls,* keeps feeding new rumors into the stream of London gossip, including the suspicion that two more Cabinet members besides War Minister Jack Profumo were involved in the case or its fringes. Says Denning: "It is impossible to draw a hard and fast line between crime and sin...
...press continued to play both crime and sin for all they were worth, and it was easy to blame it for exaggerating, if not creating the scandal by buying up "confessions" right and left at fabulous prices. The People, which had lost Christine Keeler's story in the bidding with its rival, News of the World, last week attacked Christine under the banner SHAMELESS SLUT...
More significant than its social repercussions, however, is that the whole question is provoking serious, bitter, partisan and angry argument. A besetting sin of British society for a decade has been self-satisfaction and complacency. These have been badly shaken. Britons have been forced to begin a long and painful examination of conscience. "Let us be frank," says Novelist Rebecca West. "The problem is, as it always has been, to get the goats and monkeys under control. The Ward case is a problem in animal training, and we ourselves are the animals...
...Shakespeare country, where John Profumo was four times elected to Parliament before he was cut off in the blossoms of his sin, the air last week was promise-crammed. Campaigning for Profumo's seat were: left-wing Labor Candidate Andrew Faulds, 40, a bearded Shakespearean actor who actually discovered a slum in the Warwickshire countryside; Publisher Derick Mirfin, 33, a bright, toothy Liberal, who declared that "it's time to give the Tories a kick in the pants"; and Tory Angus Maude, 50, an able journalist and former M.P. who rebelled against the government's handling...