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   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > halfawake :   
   >   
   >   
   >>If he does look that way, no doubt it is because he misrepresented key   
   >>portions of the Lotus Sutra in a previous lifetime.   
   >   
   >   
   >      Heh.  Rob can't show I misrepresented the Lotus Sutra here   
   > in this discussion, so he babbles about what he imagines I   
   > might have done in another life -- his alternative to admitting   
   > that the sutra describes the Bodhisattva   
   > Sarvasattvapriyadarsana immolating himself to honor the   
   > Buddha, an act labeled "the most sublime worship of the law" by   
   > the eight Buddhas who watch.   
   >   
   > -- Catawumpus   
      
   It was a joke, Cat; and mainly directed towards the trappings of the Sutra.   
      
   Robert   
      
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