Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id UAA12604 (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 20:09:10 GMT From: <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:12:43 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Soul and Self Message-ID: <3A87EF5B.27871.38FE9C@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010212100659.C1226@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20010212033102.AAA9906@camailp.harvard.edu@[205.240.180.74]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:32:47PM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 12 Feb 2001, at 10:06, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:32:47PM -0500, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No one can know such things. But we are free to express our opinions
> based on years of study of acres of print devoted to just this issue.
>
> > http://www.acay.com.au/~silkroad/buddha/h_life.htm#The Life of
> > Buddha
> >
> > "The historical fact is...
> <snip>
> > 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."
>
> You rely on a source that claims to know his last words? What's
> happened to your skepticism, Wade?
>
He doesn't care what the Buddha might have or have not said;
Robin believes that he knows what the Buddha MEANT. I his own
mind, he's insinuated himself into the Mind of the World-Honored
One, just as some christian mystics claim to have a mental
switchboard connection to the Mind of God.
> --
> Robin Faichney
> robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
>
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