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**DenisMoor** · 05-12-2011, 10:26 PM

You're welcome KA.

Thanks,

What do you, or anyone, think of this Aj. Sumedho quote? "We [...] but using the Pali Canon to explore our own experience.... [...]

That is exactly the kind of feeling I have had the first time I did an honest try to the Pali Dhamma. And because of this, it is irrelevant who has written it at all. Personally, I do believe in a Buddha of bones and flesh that past by as we will past by. I am not a religious person so to think in metaphysical Buddhas and Buddhas to come and so and so... do not fulfills me. To believe in a fleshy man is, IMO, much more important than fairy tales, because it give you the certainty that anybody can realize the path, and that the path is about the here and now.

By the way, I really appreciate the Sumedho insight about the Pali Dhamma. Is just great. Also this guys, the Thai Forest Tradition, are great because the do not seem to need worshiping like teachers of other traditions that seem to have so huge egos as kind of superheros or outstanding gurus. The teachings of Aj. sumedho and others alike are clear, simple and direct.

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DenisMoor Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 640 Senior Member	You're welcome KA. Thanks, What do you, or anyone, think of this Aj. Sumedho quote? "We [...] but using the Pali Canon to explore our own experience.... [...] That is exactly the kind of feeling I have had the first time I did an honest try to the Pali Dhamma. And because of this, it is irrelevant who has written it at all. Personally, I do believe in a Buddha of bones and flesh that past by as we will past by. I am not a religious person so to think in metaphysical Buddhas and Buddhas to come and so and so... do not fulfills me. To believe in a fleshy man is, IMO, much more important than fairy tales, because it give you the certainty that anybody can realize the path, and that the path is about the here and now. By the way, I really appreciate the Sumedho insight about the Pali Dhamma. Is just great. Also this guys, the Thai Forest Tradition, are great because the do not seem to need worshiping like teachers of other traditions that seem to have so huge egos as kind of superheros or outstanding gurus. The teachings of Aj. sumedho and others alike are clear, simple and direct.
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