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**fluoxet** · 07-23-2011, 06:42 PM

Thanks for that, Aloka-D. Gombrich in some of his other works goes into detail how the Buddha's teachings were cast specifically to oppose the 'salvation by ritual duty' inherent in the brahminism that he so often faced. For example, Gombrich explains how kamma to the brahmins meant fulfilling one's rituals properly, regardless of one's mental state. The Buddha took their own word and turned it around to mean that the mental state of volition driving the act is more important than the act.

And then there's attachment/clinging to rites and rituals as the third fetter preventing accomplishment, of course.

07-23-2011, 06:42 PM	#2
fluoxet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 591 Senior Member	Thanks for that, Aloka-D. Gombrich in some of his other works goes into detail how the Buddha's teachings were cast specifically to oppose the 'salvation by ritual duty' inherent in the brahminism that he so often faced. For example, Gombrich explains how kamma to the brahmins meant fulfilling one's rituals properly, regardless of one's mental state. The Buddha took their own word and turned it around to mean that the mental state of volition driving the act is more important than the act. And then there's attachment/clinging to rites and rituals as the third fetter preventing accomplishment, of course.
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