Post by siftingtothetruth on Jun 20, 2019 16:01:19 GMT
Long -- and entertaining! I love the Pali canon Buddha and need to read him more. Very much like Socrates -- such an idiosyncratic, memorable character with a take on everything.
www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.01.0.bodh.html
In this passage he talks about all the wrong views he's fighting against and which he knows are wrong.
This is near the beginning...
"6. "And if, bhikkhus, others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should not give way to jubilation, joy, and exultation in your heart. For if you were to become jubilant, joyful, and exultant in such a situation, you would only be creating an obstacle for yourselves. If others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should acknowledge what is fact as fact, saying: 'For such and such a reason this is a fact, this is true, there is such a thing in us, this is found among us.'
"7. "It is, bhikkhus, only to trifling and insignificant matters, to the minor details of mere moral virtue, that a worldling would refer when speaking in praise of the Tathāgata. And what are those trifling and insignificant matters, those minor details of mere moral virtue, to which he would refer?
I love the saltiness -- "Yeah, I'm great in pretty much every way, but people who don't know choose my trivial points of greatness instead of the real ones..." Heh.
www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.01.0.bodh.html
In this passage he talks about all the wrong views he's fighting against and which he knows are wrong.
This is near the beginning...
"6. "And if, bhikkhus, others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should not give way to jubilation, joy, and exultation in your heart. For if you were to become jubilant, joyful, and exultant in such a situation, you would only be creating an obstacle for yourselves. If others speak in praise of me, or in praise of the Dhamma, or in praise of the Sangha, you should acknowledge what is fact as fact, saying: 'For such and such a reason this is a fact, this is true, there is such a thing in us, this is found among us.'
"7. "It is, bhikkhus, only to trifling and insignificant matters, to the minor details of mere moral virtue, that a worldling would refer when speaking in praise of the Tathāgata. And what are those trifling and insignificant matters, those minor details of mere moral virtue, to which he would refer?
I love the saltiness -- "Yeah, I'm great in pretty much every way, but people who don't know choose my trivial points of greatness instead of the real ones..." Heh.
