XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen
XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
From: kimmerian@fastmail.fm
halfawake :
>>>What do you think about the Buddha's path to liberation from delusion?
Catawumpus :
>> 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.
1/2:
> 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
The confusion is yours. I'm not playing "Theravada versus
Mahayana," I'm responding to your question about the
"liberation from delusion" theme. You asked. I answered. You
fell down a well.
> As for your understanding of Mahayana, it's a superficial view. The
> idea that mountains "remain mountains" is a/ not quite accurate, and
The inaccuracy is yours. I didn't either explain Mahayana
to you or claim mountains remain mountains there. I noted
that talk about mountains remaining mountains becomes laughable
if they're merely a dream.
> not necessarily representative of Mahayana as a whole, but of zen in
More of your idiocy. I didn't say a thing about "Mahayana
as a whole." You can't read.
> particular. Don't have time now, but could discuss...
You couldn't possibly discuss because you don't even begin
to comprehend.
-- Catawumpus
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* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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