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   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
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   >>Case by case, always. Better read things in context.   
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   >   
   >      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   
      
   Yet another objection to the style of the Lotus Sutra.  According to   
   Buddhism as I understand it from almost everything else I've read, heard   
   or practiced, the Dharma is not to be worshipped by any means, but is   
   meant to be understood and practiced.  Yet another exercise in pomposity   
   to make one sick.  Worshipping through a meaningless act of   
   self-immolation, as if one were a human fireworks being consumed for the   
   amusement and continued grandiosity of the Dharma Kings, is even more   
   disgusting.   
      
   I'm not saying that the Lotus doesn't have the deep teaching that many   
   say it does - I'm still reading.  But the feudal, medievalist,   
   triumphalist trappings and sociopathic pomposity of the sutra are really   
   sick.   
      
   Robert   
      
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