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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> You are quite good at making distinctions. But I wonder why you cannot   
   >> see that   
   >> what you see as lies are truthful   
   >> enough in broader contexts.   
   >   
   >      Case by case, always, not so?  In the case of the Apannaka   
   > Sutta the Buddha provides a "safe bet" teaching and also asserts "There   
   > is actually the next world."  In the case of the Lotus Sutra the Buddha   
   > teaches to escape from life in this world, which he compares with a   
   > burning house, and from rebirth in the next one.   
      
      
   Your interpretations are reasonable enough   
   in your limited contexts.   
   But, if you don't mind,   
   I would like to look at them   
   in the broader contexts.   
      
   Isn't it the case that   
   life does not have to be full of suffering   
   regardless of whether there is the next world or not?   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)