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**Ankeseiband** · 07-22-2010, 03:45 PM

Greetings Aloka-D,

It would be best if there were no sects at all. What makes a sect a sect is their deviation from the Buddha's teachings. Why anyone would want to deviate from the teachings of an unsurpassable Buddha is beyond me. Yet they did, and they do. Despite what some would have you believe - we can have Dhamma without sectarianism!

It is a choice available to us, should we wish to take it. It is a choice worth making others aware of, so that can turn their back of sectarianism, should they choose to do so.

Metta,
Retro.

07-22-2010, 03:45 PM	#2
Ankeseiband Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 389 Senior Member	Greetings Aloka-D, It would be best if there were no sects at all. What makes a sect a sect is their deviation from the Buddha's teachings. Why anyone would want to deviate from the teachings of an unsurpassable Buddha is beyond me. Yet they did, and they do. Despite what some would have you believe - we can have Dhamma without sectarianism! It is a choice available to us, should we wish to take it. It is a choice worth making others aware of, so that can turn their back of sectarianism, should they choose to do so. Metta, Retro.
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