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**Sipewrio** · 07-24-2010, 07:38 AM

My answer is 'yes' because even the Buddha himself taught different kinds of teachings for human beings of different dispositions.

While teaching these people of different dispositions, did he ever utter anything that contradicted, belittled, or rendered unimportant, meaningless, or inferior something he had said in another place or time? For example, I looked up the Lotus Sutra in Wikipedia yesterday and found that the Sutra itself is supposed to hold that it was spoken by the Buddha during his lifetime, then stored for five hundred years in a realm of nagas before being published in our world, because it was beyond the understanding of the humans of the Buddha's time. Maybe this is true, but it does not ring true in my ears; not even a tiny little bit.

07-24-2010, 07:38 AM	#19
Sipewrio Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	My answer is 'yes' because even the Buddha himself taught different kinds of teachings for human beings of different dispositions. While teaching these people of different dispositions, did he ever utter anything that contradicted, belittled, or rendered unimportant, meaningless, or inferior something he had said in another place or time? For example, I looked up the Lotus Sutra in Wikipedia yesterday and found that the Sutra itself is supposed to hold that it was spoken by the Buddha during his lifetime, then stored for five hundred years in a realm of nagas before being published in our world, because it was beyond the understanding of the humans of the Buddha's time. Maybe this is true, but it does not ring true in my ears; not even a tiny little bit.
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