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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> Didn't I say the Buddha might have believed in the next world?   
   >   
   >      Aren't you wriggling again?  You said that even though the   
   > Buddha might possibly have believed in a next world, it's wrong to think   
   > that he argues for its existence in the Apannaka Sutta.   
   >   
   >      But in the sutta, the Budda firmly asserts "There actually   
   > is the next world."  He calls the proposition that there actually is the   
   > next world "true dhamma."  He mentions the good destination and the bad   
   > one.  Etc.   
   >   
   >> Do you think he wanted us to pull out "the arrow" or to analyze its   
   >> construction in detail?   
   >   
   >      I think your attachment to dogma prevents you from reading   
   > the Apannaka Sutta honestly.   
      
      
   Would you rather believe in his words   
   than practice what he said is skillful?   
      
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