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   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> you don't have to interpret sutras too literally.   
   >   
   >      Rejecting literalism doesn't begin to make your misreading   
   > go away.  The Apannaka Sutta describes the Budda stating "there is   
   > actually the next world," referring to that assertion as "right speech,"   
   > describing it as "true dhamma," etc.  So even if you arbitrarily decide   
   > the sutta is an allegory of some kind, you've still made a very obvious   
   > mistake by denying those statements are part of the teaching it assigns   
   > the Buddha.   
      
      
   Does life have to be full of suffering?   
      
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