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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm   
      
   Catawumpus :   
      
   >>      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.   
      
   halfawake :   
      
   > 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   
      
       A fatal objection to your claim arahants are not allowed to   
   kill themselves and your idea they never do so (aside from a   
   single exception due to severe illness).  But instead of fixing   
   your mistake, you attack the sutra.   
      
   -- Catawumpus   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)