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**rikdpola** · 10-03-2011, 12:54 PM

Hi, Kaarine. The word "revealed" implies that some supernatural source gave some hidden knowledge to a human.

Yes, that is true.

The word "revelation" can be used metaphorically, as I think you are, but it doesn't imply anything supernatural. Yes, that was my idea. To set apart the idea of some supernatural stuff from what the Buddha taught.

In a sense, yes, the truths one discovers in reading the suttas and in one's practice can be called "revelations," in the sense that a truth was revealed, but that's a mundane use of the term. I felt was a sort of revelation when I first read the Four Noble Truths. I could not see things the way I used. Never again.

The way I read the OP is that, "Are Buddhist scriptures revealed texts?" is asking if the Buddhist texts were handed down by a supernatural being, such as a god. I may be wrong, of course.

Sure. It is not the same thing an Arhat than a "God".

10-03-2011, 12:54 PM	#7
rikdpola Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 568 Senior Member	Hi, Kaarine. The word "revealed" implies that some supernatural source gave some hidden knowledge to a human. Yes, that is true. The word "revelation" can be used metaphorically, as I think you are, but it doesn't imply anything supernatural. Yes, that was my idea. To set apart the idea of some supernatural stuff from what the Buddha taught. In a sense, yes, the truths one discovers in reading the suttas and in one's practice can be called "revelations," in the sense that a truth was revealed, but that's a mundane use of the term. I felt was a sort of revelation when I first read the Four Noble Truths. I could not see things the way I used. Never again. The way I read the OP is that, "Are Buddhist scriptures revealed texts?" is asking if the Buddhist texts were handed down by a supernatural being, such as a god. I may be wrong, of course. Sure. It is not the same thing an Arhat than a "God".
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