[Buddha-l] Meditating Buddha

[Robert Morrison]

On 1/20/06, Stefan Detrez <stefan.detrez at gmail.com> wrote:

>>
Maybe some criterion is necessary to
know what is meant as prescriptive and what as descriptive.
<<

R. Nance replied:

>
If you could determine this criterion, you'd have solved a great many
problems that bedevil the study of Buddhist history.
<

Descriptive:  In dependence upon A, arises B.

Soft (subjunctive) prescriptive:  IF you want B, then you SHOULD do A.

Seems to simple I don't belief it!

Robert Morrison