[Buddha-l] five elements

[Michael Paris]

Sounds exactly like what a bureaucracy would do.


Michael


--- "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
[snip]

> All this reminds me of an observation that Edward Conze made once
> about
> abhidharma. Monks did not have enough to do, he said, so they kept
> themselves busy by putting every teaching into a neat category and
> then
> drawing an infinite number of meaningless correlations between one
> category and another. 



		
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