[Buddha-l] 'apple' of eden

[Stuart Ray Sarbacker]

>Message: 7
>Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:46:52 -0600
>From: "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] "Nature" and  eating meat
>To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
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>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:09 -0700, Gad Horowitz wrote:
>
>  > human nature is not as simple as that of animals. we ate of the 
>fruit of the
>  > (bo)tree of knowledge. we desire good and evil and the wisdom to know the
>  > difference.
>
>You must be thinking of some other tradition. I am not aware of any
>Buddhist texts that discuss eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of
>good and evil.
>
>--
>Richard
>

Isn't there the Buddhist 'cosmogony' of the tasty samsaric 'crust' in 
the Agganna sutta of the DN? There is an interesting connection 
(though obviously not identity)... -Stuart