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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
      
   Your context appears to be willfully narrow.   
   Are you trying to win an argument   
   or to save all sentient beings from suffering?   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
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