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   From: epsteinrob@yahoo.com   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > halfawake :   
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   >>What do you think about the Buddha's path to liberation from delusion?   
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   >      I think it makes a mockery of all the talk about mountains   
   > remaining mountains by claiming the mountains never were   
   > really mountains, the cities never were really cities, so forth   
   > and so on.  "They are seen to be like the city of the   
   > Gandharvas, a dream, and Maya," or like a mirage.  Quoting from   
   > the Lankavatara Sutra.   
   >   
   > -- Catawumpus   
      
   Thanks for answering, although I think you confused two topics I brought   
   up - the Buddha's path to liberation from delusion exists in Theravada   
   as well as Mahayana; and another interrelated question as to what you   
   thought about Mahayana philosophy.  I think you've just answered the   
   latter question, but not completely the former.   
      
   As for your understanding of Mahayana, it's a superficial view.  The   
   idea that mountains "remain mountains" is a/ not quite accurate, and b/   
   not necessarily representative of Mahayana as a whole, but of zen in   
   particular.  Don't have time now, but could discuss...   
      
   Robert   
      
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