[Old-old-Ivy]

Bodhi is an unrepentant abhidhammic reincarnationist (though he euphemizes it "rebirth"), and occasionally it shows through in his translations. Thanissaro is too, but the hard-line doesn't seem to show through as much in his work. He does have the annoying habit of injecting his pet doctrinal oddities into his translations, though, which is why we see all the " Unbindings", "Clinging/Sustenance-s", and other silly contrivances in his translations. All this comes, I think, from his analogies in his book "Mind like Fire Unbound", in which he likens Nibbana to releasing a fire from the fuel it is "clinging" to.

You read the Sutta right. The problem is that there are so many Brahmins out there running around in "Buddhist suits".


I see Brahmins...They walk around like everyone else...they don't even know they are Brahmins....LOL....