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Old 01-29-2012, 04:58 AM   #37
CoallyPax

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I also love Buddha but, Buddha was a human too.

If one does not attach the mind to Buddhist sutras, dhammas
I can only suggest to learn from the suttas.

To love the Buddha, as a person, and to reject the Dhamma, is not Buddhist practise.

Buddhist practise is to reject the Buddha, as a person, and to embrace the Dhamma, as Truth, Path & Fruit.

The Buddha, according to Dhamma, according to emptiness, is not a "person" or a "human being".

All the best

And so, my friend Yamaka — when you can't pin down the Tathagata as a truth or reality even in the present life — is it proper for you to declare, 'As I understand the Teaching explained by the Blessed One, a monk with no more effluents, on the break-up of the body, is annihilated, perishes, & does not exist after death'?

Previously, my friend Sariputta, I did foolishly hold that evil supposition. But now, having heard your explanation of the Dhamma, I have abandoned that evil supposition and have broken through to the Dhamma.

Then, friend Yamaka, how would you answer if you are thus asked: A monk, a worthy one, with no more mental effluents: what is he on the break-up of the body, after death?

Thus asked, I would answer, 'Form is inconstant... Feeling... Perception... Fabrications... Consciousness is inconstant. That which is inconstant is unsatisfactory. That which is unsatisfactory has ceased and gone to its end.

Very good, my friend Yamaka. Very good.

Yamaka Sutta
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