XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen   
   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: firehose@everywhere.com   
      
   syringe nipples wrote:   
      
   > On 17/08/2010 1:12 AM, oxtail wrote:   
   >> 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?   
   >>   
   >>   
   > are you trying not to concede and crediting practice again?   
      
      
   Don't get me wrong,   
   but do you deserve to be read?   
      
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