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   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > 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."   
      
      
   Case by case, always.   
   Better read things in context.   
   If you look for the truth in words,   
   you would find that words are empty.   
   Do you worship anything?   
      
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   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)