Go see for yourself and then enter the stream (was Re: Buddha/Christ ( talk.religion.buddhism) connections...feedback)
Tang Huyen
LionOfJudah wrote:
Tang Huyen: <<There is no Spirit, even less Holy Spirit, just oneself working at
doing away with any sense of self at all, until there is none left, true or
untrue.>>
Theravad: <<True but are you not a hamster just keeping the wheel spinning for
no purpose but to keep it spinning? Does the Buddhadhamma exist only to keep us
hamsters busy? Isn't this existentual dispair? Spirit is like electricity, the
only way you can know it exists is by what it does. I took the Buddha at his
word until my own direct experience confirmed what he said. Go see for
yourself!>>
Toshu: <<no one knows that electricity exists.
it is simply a single term used in a metaphor (the currently accepted equations
for electrodynamics) that makes a certain body of experience coherent.
to take electricity as really existing is to kill a useful metaphor and make of
it a dogma.
now since the Buddha and many others treading Buddha's path find that Self is
_not_ even a useful metaphor, what need is there of Spirit?
there is no despair at no-Self and no-Spirit, rather there is delight at not
having what is not necessary. go see for your self and then enter the stream.>>
LionOfJudah: <<What? :) Hahahahahaahah!>>
Toshu, are you so temeritous as to challenge Theravad's claim of Stream Entry,
which has been accepted by such authorities as Evelyn?
Tang Huyen