XPost: talk.religion.buddhism, alt.zen, alt.philosophy.zen
XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
From: oxtail@nowhere.org
Allen Barker wrote:
> On 08/12/2010 02:31 PM, oxtail wrote:
>> Catawumpus wrote:
>>
>>> oxtail:
>>>
>>> [Apannaka Sutta]
>>>
>>>> Just think for a while what the Buddha was trying to do there,
>>>> please. Was he trying to prove the existence of the next world?
>>>
>>> According to the Apannaka Sutta, the Buddha firmly asserts
>>> the existence of the next world -- "there actually is the next world"
>>> -- teaches that to say so is right speech, and goes on to distinguish
>>> "the good destination" from "the bad destination," all of which goes
>>> missing from the misreading you insist on.
>>>
>>>> Or was he trying to prove the usefulness of his Dharma?
>>>
>>> In the Apannaka Sutta the Buddha says the statement "there
>>> is a next world" is "true Dhamma." So the next world's existence is a
>>> part of his dhamma as he describes it here: the part you keep
>>> ignoring.
>>
>>
>> According to a Mahayana sutra,
>> you can get enlightened
>> by sleeping with a certain prostitute.
>>
>>
> You can also get a nasty case of VD.
>
> Some prostitutes freely choose to be sex workers.
>
> Others, however, are people who are abused, exploited, and treated as
> nothing but a commodity. They are often trafficked, like "back" in the
> days of the slave trade.
Case by case, always.
Your chance of meeting that Bodhisattva is
probably nil until you are awakened.
Believe it or not,
I was making a point that
you should not read sutras too literally.
--
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