[Buddha-l] Re: Nirvana si, bodhi no!

[Bruce Burrill]

At 11:32 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote:
>Yes, and according to the Pali suttas awakening should spread
>exponentially.

Huh?


>  It seems obvious to me that this did not happen -
>so what went wrong? I am not sure what rats's asses have to
>do with it, though. I used the term anuttara samyak sambhodi
>(perhaps unwisely) to emphasize that I was talking about a
>state of awakening equal to that of the Buddha. I assure you I
>wasn't trying to hijack the discussion into a Mahayana direction,
>or anything like that.