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Old 10-29-2011, 10:48 PM   #1
Obsententicab

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Default Discord, schisms and separations
The discord, schisms and separations in the religions that [someone] inquired about recently, occur precisely due to differing speculative views, myths and superstitions that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Buddha's teachings. The Buddha noted that this is what happens when speculative views clash, and this is precisely why he based his own soteriological teachings and practices in the rational and the empirical: in what one can see and know empirically for oneself without relying on superstition or myth or speculative view.

If all of these sects were to let go of these superstitions and speculative views, and turn instead to the Buddha's liberative teachings, none of these separations would occur and there would be no sects, no schisms, and none of this discord.

I don't see that happening any time soon.
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