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   XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy   
   From: oxtail@nowhere.org   
      
   Catawumpus wrote:   
      
   > oxtail :   
   >   
   >> Sorry, I was not doing   
   >> what you think I was doing.   
   >> I was looking for what the Buddha   
   >> actually wanted us to do.   
   >   
   >      Oh?  That's interesting, because the way I've heard it you   
   > aren't doing what you think you're doing.  ("Oxtail is not doing what he   
   > thinks he is doing here.")  You've been giving an interpretation of the   
   > Apannaka Sutta that tries to deny the Buddha teaches the existence of   
   > the next world as he's depicted there.   
   >   
   >      So happens that you're mistaken, since the sutta describes   
   > him saying "there actually is the next world," stating the "there   
   > actually is the next world" is "right speech," declaring that the   
   > proposition "there actually is the next world" is "true dhamma,"   
   > referring to "the good destination" and "the bad destination," etc.   
   >   
   >> Do you think he wanted us   
   >> to believe whatever he said?   
   >   
   >      I think that you have trouble facing up to what he says in   
   > the Apannaka Sutta.   
      
      
   You are trying to boil the cookbook   
   to make a soup out of it.   
      
   --   
   Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)