Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id DAA09384 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:35:19 GMT Subject: Re: Soul and Self Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:32:47 -0500 x-sender: wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0v3, Claritas Est Veritas From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-ID: <20010212033102.AAA9906@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.74]> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Hi Robin Faichney -
>OK, so what, exactly, is wrong with saying what I think the Buddha said?
If it's OK with the Budd, it's OK with me.
Strange though it is to hear that one thinks he knows the expert opinion
of a mostly legendary personality.
http://www.acay.com.au/~silkroad/buddha/h_life.htm#The Life of Buddha
"The historical fact is that around 563BC, in Lumbini, in Northern India
near the present border of Nepal, Siddhartha was born. The family name
was Guatama and they were the rulers of a small feudal kingdom of the
Sakya clan. Increasing urbanisation and trade meant that that there was
increasing affluence in that era.
From about the age of seven, he was trained in athletic skills and was
instructed in the spiritual disciplines of the day, and, by the standards
of the day, was well educated, although it is not known whether he could
read or write.
The Buddha himself wrote nothing. His teaching was communicated entirely
orally and the details we have today are from the writings many years
after his death. When he was about to die, at the age of eighty, he lay
down on his right side, and urged his followers to ask him questions. At
this point, however, they were all silent. Then he spoke his final words,
which were: "All component things decay, work on your own salvation with
diligence."
- Wade
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