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**CaseyFan** · 01-16-2011, 02:08 AM

Neither me. To give credit to those listed above is like hearing the alarm clock [the Pali Canon] and not wanting to wake up.

Precisely. The way people usually approach a subject of great interest may be to investigate every colourful manifestation of it; to fill their lives with it. I see this as a means of distracting oneself; like going to the pub or a concert in order to forget about the world. To me, this is the wrong approach to Buddhism. It is as the Buddha said: when you are impaled on a poisoned arrow, why would you want to know who extraneous details about the arrow, the poison, the shooter, when the only important thing is to pull it out?

01-16-2011, 02:08 AM	#16
CaseyFan Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Neither me. To give credit to those listed above is like hearing the alarm clock [the Pali Canon] and not wanting to wake up. Precisely. The way people usually approach a subject of great interest may be to investigate every colourful manifestation of it; to fill their lives with it. I see this as a means of distracting oneself; like going to the pub or a concert in order to forget about the world. To me, this is the wrong approach to Buddhism. It is as the Buddha said: when you are impaled on a poisoned arrow, why would you want to know who extraneous details about the arrow, the poison, the shooter, when the only important thing is to pull it out?
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