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What is more, dharma lite applies to students who simply leave out certain aspects of the dharma. "He who sees Dependent Origination, sees the Dhamma; he who sees the Dhamma, sees Dependent Origination." -MN 28
What part of the Dhamma have we left out, precisely? If the Buddha taught someone when to flip a pancake, would that make it part of Buddhadhamma? You have stated that removing rebirth/kamma from Buddhism would reduce the Dhamma to tatters. Yet there is no mention of either in D.O. (i.e. the Dhamma). The Buddha stated: "Furthermore, the disciple of the noble ones is endowed with verified confidence in the Dhamma: 'The Dhamma is well-expounded by the Blessed One, to be seen here & now, timeless, inviting verification, pertinent, to be realized by the wise for themselves." [SN 55.40] Yet psychic powers of supposedly seeing past lives and "verifying" rebirth for one's own self is outright denied as being necessary to attaining Nibbana. [SN 12.70] So, could you please explain the supposed necessity of belief in rebirth to attaining Nibbana rather than just repeatedly claiming it while stomping your harder each time? Thanks. |
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