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**blogforloversxx** · 07-31-2011, 08:46 PM

Oh. I guess I'm reading the Milinda Panha differently. It looks to me that Nagasena was explicitly denying a transmigrating spiritual substance/atman. If you don't mind, have time and are interested, would you mind pointing me to which passage(s) strike you as trying to slip it in? In the meantime, I'd probably better give it a re-read. It's been a while since I read it through.

The fundamental idea is to keep "re-birth" in a fashion that has the appearance of complying with the Buddha's rejection of the Atman.

It is rather like creationists' shift of tactic from "Creationism" to "Intelligent Design".

The process itself is disingenuous. What is produced cannot help but be hopelessly equivocal and disingenuous as well.

07-31-2011, 08:46 PM	#28
blogforloversxx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 350 Senior Member	Oh. I guess I'm reading the Milinda Panha differently. It looks to me that Nagasena was explicitly denying a transmigrating spiritual substance/atman. If you don't mind, have time and are interested, would you mind pointing me to which passage(s) strike you as trying to slip it in? In the meantime, I'd probably better give it a re-read. It's been a while since I read it through. The fundamental idea is to keep "re-birth" in a fashion that has the appearance of complying with the Buddha's rejection of the Atman. It is rather like creationists' shift of tactic from "Creationism" to "Intelligent Design". The process itself is disingenuous. What is produced cannot help but be hopelessly equivocal and disingenuous as well.
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