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Old 06-07-2011, 04:56 AM   #23
nerrttrw

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...the external world that we perceived is relative and dualistic in nature. That what is ultimately real goes beyond our dualistic intellectual thought process. ....a speculative wilderness of views that the Budha neither held nor taught. Again, wallowing in the very dualisms that one is attempting to refute.


It is trying to say, “if you open your mouth you are already wrong, if you give rise to a single thought you are in error." And yet the Buddha opened his mouth and spoke at length to teach and explain his Dhamma. The Buddha never taught the above hogwash.

It is the silence that follows after the sound of discussion has ceased and when the role of thought is over. In short, what is ultimately real can only be realized intuitively. More speculative thickets of views that the Buddha did not teach and would not endorse.



"Monks, there once was a time when the Dasarahas had a large drum called 'Summoner.' Whenever Summoner was split, the Dasarahas inserted another peg in it, until the time came when Summoner's original wooden body had disappeared and only a conglomeration of pegs remained.

"In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who won't listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. They won't lend ear, won't set their hearts on knowing them, won't regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering. But they will listen when discourses that are literary works — the works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples — are recited. They will lend ear and set their hearts on knowing them. They will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.

"In this way the disappearance of the discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — will come about.

"Thus you should train yourselves: 'We will listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. We will lend ear, will set our hearts on knowing them, will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.' That's how you should train yourselves."


--SN 20.7 Ani Sutta: The Peg
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