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**r7rGOhvd** · 08-21-2011, 08:55 AM

Quite an apt picture there, Element.

I might point out that the Buddha did not speak of "Mundane/Supramundane Paths": he spoke of a right view that is sasava, meaning "defiled" or mired in the effluents (related to "effluvium", i.e., sewage), and a Noble Right View that is anasava, that is not defiled or mired in the effluents. This noble Right View, he further clarified, leads to liberation (lokuttara) from worldliness or "the world" (loka, as in the Loka Sutta), and is a Factor of the Path (as distinguished from his description of the other views.

Beyond that, for anyone who reads and swallows his Kool-Aid, Analayo does great harm both to that person and to the Dhamma itself.

08-21-2011, 08:55 AM	#6
r7rGOhvd Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 458 Senior Member	Quite an apt picture there, Element. I might point out that the Buddha did not speak of "Mundane/Supramundane Paths": he spoke of a right view that is sasava, meaning "defiled" or mired in the effluents (related to "effluvium", i.e., sewage), and a Noble Right View that is anasava, that is not defiled or mired in the effluents. This noble Right View, he further clarified, leads to liberation (lokuttara) from worldliness or "the world" (loka, as in the Loka Sutta), and is a Factor of the Path (as distinguished from his description of the other views. Beyond that, for anyone who reads and swallows his Kool-Aid, Analayo does great harm both to that person and to the Dhamma itself.
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