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**Yb4bulVR** · 09-05-2010, 02:44 PM

Wow, thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this quite a bit!

Hi KoolAid, I think in the context of this topic its worth me quoting Gombrich from that same lecture:

"The fully developed Buddhist cosmology does appear within the canon, but I am extremely sceptical about whether it can be ascribed to the Buddha himself. I am sceptical not only because of the way that the details can be accounted for as a historical development; to show such interest in the structure of the universe goes against the Buddha's explicit message. The world, he says, lies within this fathom-long human carcass; indeed there are many texts in which he discourages speculation about or even interest in the physical universe; we should concentrate om our experience of life here and now."

09-05-2010, 02:44 PM	#36
Yb4bulVR Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 549 Senior Member	Wow, thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this quite a bit! Hi KoolAid, I think in the context of this topic its worth me quoting Gombrich from that same lecture: "The fully developed Buddhist cosmology does appear within the canon, but I am extremely sceptical about whether it can be ascribed to the Buddha himself. I am sceptical not only because of the way that the details can be accounted for as a historical development; to show such interest in the structure of the universe goes against the Buddha's explicit message. The world, he says, lies within this fathom-long human carcass; indeed there are many texts in which he discourages speculation about or even interest in the physical universe; we should concentrate om our experience of life here and now."
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