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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > 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. 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.   
   >   
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> Your context appears to be willfully narrow.   
   >   
   >      I'm going "case by case," exactly as you recommend.  Maybe   
   > you should take your own advice.   
   >   
   >> Are you trying to win an argument or to save all sentient beings from   
   >> suffering?   
   >   
   >      You seem to be a pious fraud who believes it's o.k. to lie   
   > when saving souls, though you would probably rather say you were using   
   > "expedient means," allowed by the Lotus Sutra on the grounds that   
   > they're necessary to rescue living beings. Notice, however, what they're   
   > being rescued from:  life in this world -- described as a burning house   
   > -- as well as in the next one, consistent with the rejection of birth   
   > and rebirth in the Four Noble Truths.   
      
      
   Have you figured out the difference   
   between the conventional truth and the ultimate truth yet?   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
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