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XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
From: oxtail@nowhere.org
Jigme Dorje wrote:
> On Aug 17, 8:12 pm, oxtail wrote:
>> Jigme Dorje wrote:
>> > On Aug 17, 1:34 pm, oxtail wrote:
>> >> 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?
>>
>> > Carry the one?
>>
>> To the next dimension?
>>
>
> To this dimension.
How many dimensions do you have?
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