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**Erexecike** · 05-12-2011, 08:05 PM

Dearest Element:
"With the Vinaya...the idea of trying to keep the Vinaya pure, the personality view attaches even to this: 'Is my Vinaya as pure as someone else's or not as pure?' Then your just using conventions to increase the sense of personal worth or worthlessness. If you think you're more pure than the rest, then that's arrogance, holier-than-thou.... Conventions...are limited..., [&] like anything else anicca, dukkha, anatta.... Theravada...is a convention...of Buddhism... [&] whether you find it all agreeable...or not [it] is a tradition with a lot of power..." (Ajahn Sumedho, Intuitive Awareness, pp. 122-123, my emphases).

05-12-2011, 08:05 PM	#7
Erexecike Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 430 Senior Member	Dearest Element: "With the Vinaya...the idea of trying to keep the Vinaya pure, the personality view attaches even to this: 'Is my Vinaya as pure as someone else's or not as pure?' Then your just using conventions to increase the sense of personal worth or worthlessness. If you think you're more pure than the rest, then that's arrogance, *holier-than-thou.... Conventions...are limited..., [&] like anything else anicca, dukkha, anatta.... Theravada...is a convention...of Buddhism... [&] whether you find it all agreeable...or not [it] is a tradition with a lot of power..." (Ajahn Sumedho, Intuitive Awareness*, pp. 122-123, my emphases).
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