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   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   oxtail :   
      
   > Case by case, always. Better read things in context.   
      
        When we talked about the Apannaka Sutta you relied on some   
   generalized notion of "the Buddha-dharma" rather than   
   considering that particular case, causing you to deny the sutta   
   depicts the Buddha teaching the existence of the next world --   
   even though he states "There is actually the next world," calls   
   the proposition "There is actually the next world" right   
   speech, contends the idea "There is actually the next world" is   
   true dhamma, etc.   
      
        In the Lotus Sutra the Bodhisattva Sarvasattvapriyadarsana   
   immolates his body to honor the Buddha, an act called "the   
   most sublime worship of the law" by the eight Buddhas who watch.   
   Probably not your understanding of the dharma but the case   
   here, just as "There is actually the next world" is the case in   
   the Apannaka Sutta.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)