Group: talk.religion.buddhism · Group Profile
Author: Robert EpsteinRobert Epstein Date: Nov 21, 2006 22:39
proulx wrote:
> proulx michel scripsit:
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>>I believe he also says in the Diamond Sutra that the Tathagata is not to
>>be known by the 32 marks, since they don't really exist, or something to
>>that effect.
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>>Robert
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> The Diamond sutra essentially says that we ought not to confuse the map with
> the territory. Viz: the 32 marks are not 32 marks, they are *called* the 32
> marks. And so on.
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> IN other words, a computer is not a computer. It is called this in English.
> But it is called by other names in other languages, and that doesn't make
> it less of a computer. Only that, "computer" is only a name.
Yeah, the fun part comes in when you try to ask, as Buddha implied, if
it is not defined by its name, what is it really? You can't answer
"computer," you'd have to perceive it directly without the intervention
of definitions.
Robert
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