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**estelle** · 06-11-2012, 04:50 AM

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What of the lay followers? What of those who do not spend their entire lives for peace, etc. Monks were sheltered, and still are. But everyone else is not. By the way, that seems more about the mind, the parable said nothing of defending themselves from having their limbs slowly sawed, their flesh slowly cut away, then their bones sawed at, the dust of those bones mixing into the blood and flesh, and finally their limbs pulled off, probably snapped off the body. Nothing out of the mouths of those monks, but pitiful screams for the pain to stop. There is no thought, thought is impossible, there is only the pain. See how gruesome that is? Do you honestly think a Monk was told to just take that? Or did you mean to show that it all ends with the mind? Because I do not see a Wise and logical teacher telling a person to take something like that.

06-11-2012, 04:50 AM	#21
estelle Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 505 Senior Member	Element. What of the lay followers? What of those who do not spend their entire lives for peace, etc. Monks were sheltered, and still are. But everyone else is not. By the way, that seems more about the mind, the parable said nothing of defending themselves from having their limbs slowly sawed, their flesh slowly cut away, then their bones sawed at, the dust of those bones mixing into the blood and flesh, and finally their limbs pulled off, probably snapped off the body. Nothing out of the mouths of those monks, but pitiful screams for the pain to stop. There is no thought, thought is impossible, there is only the pain. See how gruesome that is? Do you honestly think a Monk was told to just take that? Or did you mean to show that it all ends with the mind? Because I do not see a Wise and logical teacher telling a person to take something like that.
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