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   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > Jigme Dorje :   
   >   
   >   
   >>Such an entity cannot listen to others or carry on meaningful   
   >>communication with them. It can only feed its false sense of identity   
   >>by creating a sense of specialness, separation and superiority in   
   >>comparison to others.  For such an entity to exist, others must be   
   >>"wrong" and "stupid" or otherwise inferior.  It exists in a reactive   
   >>state, completely dependent on the world of form.   
   >   
   >   
   >      If Jigme is describing himself then he's doing pretty well.   
   > His reading difficulties stem from an inability to listen   
   > without hearing his own voice, he likes to think he's specially   
   > awakened, and our present discussion began with his need to   
   > claim I was wrong about Buddhism.  Unfortunately for him he was   
   > unable to address what I said, still less show that it was   
   > false, so my point stands:  teachings like the Four Noble   
   > Truths offer a highly critical perspective on worldly existence   
   > no matter how much of a shock that is to worldlings like   
   > Jigme who believe that "Buddhism does not comment negatively on   
   > life here."   
   >   
   > -- Catawumpus   
      
   You're a one-trick pony.   
      
   Robert   
      
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