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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   halfawake :   
      
   > It was a joke, Cat; and mainly directed towards the trappings of the Sutra.   
      
        The Lotus Sutra includes the item that you both denied and   
   demanded, namely an arahant who decides _not_ to "stick   
   around," contradicting your notion that all of them did so with   
   only one exception due to severe illness.  What's more, the   
   Buddhas answer, "That is the real worship of the Tathagata, the   
   real worship of the law."   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)