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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" scripsit:
> The lesson of the Buddha is not one of
> magical realization, but of the simple
> and achievable human realization that one
> can trancend the network of ones' habits,
> go beyond the tools that are our sign systems
> to real inner directed choice.
Perhaps so. But even the Buddha had to be born
Siddhartha, a member of a community, or rather a set
of communities: family, city, principality. Without
that anchor he would be not Buddha but Kaspar Hauser.
"For the word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after."
--Ged
"Has the expression 'birthlessness' any meaning whatsoever?"
--One of the Zen masters, I forget whom
--
John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz.
-- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words"
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