Kris, More important than whether or not either of these personages actually existed or how accurate the [translated] 3rd-person accounts of what they did and what they said is that YOU EXPERIENCE what they are said to have experienced.
And you can do that. I'm confident 10's of thousands or many more than that have. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote: > > On 9/7/2012 7:39 AM, mike brown wrote: > > There is a *big* difference between these stories of Buddha and > > Christ. With Buddha's story it makes no difference whether you believe > > Buddha was a real man or not... > > So one you accept more readily because you believe it to likely be > allegorical, the other you reject because you believe it claims to be a > factual historical account? Surely you can see the irony in this. > > Every consider both/neither? That it doesn't mater whether EITHER of > these are stories of actual/factual others or not - as they only point > to selfless realization, and reintegration/embodiment? That they're only > expressions of the way, and are not offering anyone else's > stories/practices/promises as things to cling to or reject? People take > that upon themselves. > > KG > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
