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**Hinigyday** · 06-27-2011, 08:01 AM

Yes sir, you are correct. And that was my mistake. Thank you for pointing out my delusion.

Those who will not learn from the past are doomed to repeat their mistakes in the future. The real mistake is in the view underlying the action. In your case this conceit of mahayana superiority and the delusion, "paying attention to the teachings of the Buddha is 'fundamentalism'" are the mistakes that will hinder you for a long time.

SN 20.7
PTS: S ii 266
CDB i 708

Ani Sutta: The Peg

"Monks, there once was a time when the Dasarahas had a large drum called 'Summoner.' Whenever Summoner was split, the Dasarahas inserted another peg in it, until the time came when Summoner's original wooden body had disappeared and only a conglomeration of pegs remained. [1]

"In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who won't listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. They won't lend ear, won't set their hearts on knowing them, won't regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering. But they will listen when discourses that are literary works — the works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples — are recited. They will lend ear and set their hearts on knowing them. They will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.

"In this way the disappearance of the discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — will come about.

"Thus you should train yourselves: 'We will listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. We will lend ear, will set our hearts on knowing them, will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.' That's how you should train yourselves."

06-27-2011, 08:01 AM	#21
Hinigyday Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 386 Senior Member	Yes sir, you are correct. And that was my mistake. Thank you for pointing out my delusion. Those who will not learn from the past are doomed to repeat their mistakes in the future. The real mistake is in the view underlying the action. In your case this conceit of mahayana superiority and the delusion, "paying attention to the teachings of the Buddha is 'fundamentalism'" are the mistakes that will hinder you for a long time. SN 20.7 PTS: S ii 266 CDB i 708 Ani Sutta: The Peg "Monks, there once was a time when the Dasarahas had a large drum called 'Summoner.' Whenever Summoner was split, the Dasarahas inserted another peg in it, until the time came when Summoner's original wooden body had disappeared and only a conglomeration of pegs remained. [1] "In the same way, in the course of the future there will be monks who won't listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. They won't lend ear, won't set their hearts on knowing them, won't regard these teachings as worth grasping or mastering. But they will listen when discourses that are literary works — the works of poets, elegant in sound, elegant in rhetoric, the work of outsiders, words of disciples — are recited. They will lend ear and set their hearts on knowing them. They will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering. "In this way the disappearance of the discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — will come about. "Thus you should train yourselves: 'We will listen when discourses that are words of the Tathagata — deep, deep in their meaning, transcendent, connected with emptiness — are being recited. We will lend ear, will set our hearts on knowing them, will regard these teachings as worth grasping & mastering.' That's how you should train yourselves."
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